Asterope

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Asterope \As*ter"o*pe\, n. [Gr. ?, lit., lightning.]
     1. (Myth.) One of the Pleiades; -- called also {Sterope}.
        [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
  
     2. (Astron.) A double star in the Pleiades (21 k and 22 l
        Pleiadum, of the 5.8 and 6.4 magnitude respectively),


        appearing as a single star of the 5.3 magnitude to the
        naked eye.
        [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Asterope
       n 1: (Greek mythology) one of the 7 Pleiades [syn: {Sterope}]
       2: one of the stars in the star cluster Pleiades [syn: {Sterope}]