Pierre Mechain was a French astronomer and surveyor who, with Charles Messier, was a major contributor to the early study of deep-sky objects and comets.
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Birth DateSourced to the subject's own account Death DateSourced to the subject's own account Death PlaceCastellón de la Plana, Spain 1 Notable WorkArc measurement of Delambre and Méchain 1 Field
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A genuine working partnership, not merely a shared credit: Mechain met Messier around 1774 and the two became friends and long-time collaborators cataloguing comets and deep-sky objects, unlike the shared-Nobel-only pairs elsewhere in this file.
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1. Pierre Mechain (Wikidata)
P20 (place of death): Castellón de la Plana, Spain
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P19 (place of birth): Laon, France
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P800 (notable work): Arc measurement of Delambre and Méchain
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Pierre François André Méchain was a French astronomer and surveyor who, with Charles Messier, was a major contributor to the early study of deep-sky objects and comets.
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16 August 1744
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20 September 1804
Associated With: Charles Messier, Lead section, Pierre Mechain
was a French astronomer and surveyor who, with Charles Messier, was a major contributor to the early study of deep-sky objects and comets.
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