ASTEROPE

n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
n.

(Myth.)

2.
n.

One of the Pleiades; -- called also Sterope.

3.
n.

(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.

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