As·ter·o·pe

(ă-stĕr′ə-pē′)

Variant of Sterope.

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Noun	1.	Asterope - (Greek mythology) one of the 7 Pleiades Sterope Greek mythology - the mythology of the ancient Greeks nymph - (classical mythology) a minor nature goddess usually depicted as a beautiful maiden; "the ancient Greeks believed that nymphs inhabited forests and bodies of water" Pleiades - (Greek mythology) 7 daughters of Atlas and half-sisters of the Hyades; placed among the stars to save them from the pursuit of Orion
	2.	Asterope - one of the stars in the star cluster Pleiades Sterope Pleiades - a star cluster in the constellation Taurus

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whose stars are these: -- `Lovely Teygata, and dark-faced Electra, and Alcyone, and bright Asterope, and Celaeno, and Maia, and Merope, whom glorious Atlas begot....'

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Callicore ines es una especie mimetica que imita a otros Nymphalidae (sensu lato) de los generos Asterope Hubner (1819), Callithea Feisthamel, 1835 y Agrias Doubleday (1845), en especial A.

Notas sobre Callicore ines Hopp, 1922 en Colombia y descripcion de la hembra (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae)

Initially entitled Gli inni sacri della guerra giusta, the aforementioned collection was retitled Asterope when it was included in the larger poetic collection Laudi del cielo, del mare, della terra e degli eroi in his Edizione dell'opera omnia in 1932.

Gabriele D'Annunzio and war rhetoric in the Canti della guerra latina

The Sterope (or Asterope) pair, on the other hand, is very tight and very faint as well.

20 fun naked-eye double stars: from easy to challenging, here are some star pairs every skywatcher should know

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