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What does Messier mean?

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Proper noun
  1. An occupational surname of French origin, famously held by:
    1. Charles Messier (1730-1817), a French astronomer who between 1774 and 1781 published his Catalogue of Nebulae and Star Clusters, a catalogue of deep-sky objects.
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It was discovered by Messier on the 8th of August, and continued to be observed till the 1st of December.
He put the instrument down and zeroed it on Messier 44, the Beehive star cluster in the constellation Cancer.
Number 22 rue Messier was a wretched one-storeyed house that belonged to a country vine-dresser who seldom came to Paris.
But he always had a Gretzky or a Mario Lemieux or a Mark Messier ahead of him in the pantheon of NHL pivotmen.
Six days after sunrise the craters are again nearly of the same size, owing to the diminution of Messier.
Recognizing that Messier was simply a corporate charlatan, Bronfman stepped up and led the charge to remove the megalomaniac.

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