Messier also gave the comet an elongation angle of 140 degrees.
Messier gave the comet a magnitude rating of 2.0, making it easily visible to the unaided eye.
Messier 99 was one of the first galaxies in which a spiral pattern was first seen.
Let me therefore try to escape quantification, and focus on the messy and poetic details of my own life.
The most plausible explanation for our -ic and -ical pickle is that we are witnessing language change at work: a messy but fascinating business.
The result, as we have seen, was messy.
Second, by means of an extended example, it brilliantly links theoretically derived concepts to the often messy business of data analysis.
Bizarrely messy at first sight, they ultimately reveal a hidden structure which is every bit as ingenious as that of a traditional wellmade plot.
