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4 unusual facts about Messier


Cierva C.30

; Lioré-et-Olivier LeO C-301: Improved C-30s with uprated Messier oleo-pneumatic shock absorbers, flotation devices to facilitate ditching at sea and tripod main rotor support.

Ikarus Orkan

French manufacturer Messier produced, to the Yugoslavian specification, the complete hydraulics equipment and landing gear.

Messier-Bugatti-Dowty

Bidos: responsible for the production of large components (bogies, main fittings, integral axles) for large commercial, business, commuter aircraft and helicopter gears.

Querétaro: manufacturing of major landing gear components for: A320 main landing gear fitting, A330 main landing gear bogie beam and B787 nose landing gear inner cylinder.


Atlas Coelestis

Finally, the changes in the positions of stars (the original observations were made in the 1690s), led to an update made in the 1770s by the French engineer Jean Nicolas Fortin, supervised by the astronomers Le Monnier and Messier, from the Royal Academy of Sciences in Paris.

M102

Messier 102, an object listed in the Messier Catalogue that remains unidentified

Mark Messier Leadership Award

Sponsored by Cold-fX, the Mark Messier Leadership Award worked quite differently in its first season compared to most other trophies in the NHL.

Messier marathon

The Messier catalogue was compiled by French astronomer Charles Messier during the late 18th century and consists of 110 relatively bright deep sky objects (galaxies, nebulae, and star clusters).

Messier object

The first such addition came from Nicolas Camille Flammarion in 1921, who added Messier 104 after finding Messier’s side note in his 1781 edition exemplar of the catalogue.

Messier lived and did his astronomical work at the Hôtel de Cluny (now the Musée national du Moyen Âge), in France.

Shawinigan-Sud, Quebec

From 1942 to 1955, the structure was decorated with the artwork of painter Ozias Leduc and his assistant Gabrielle Messier.

Yahoo M45

M45 is named after the Messier catalog number of the constellation commonly known as the Pleiades.


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