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    The Pleiades (/ˈpliː.ədiːz, ˈpleɪ-, ˈplaɪ-/), also known as the Seven Sisters, Messier 45, and other names by different cultures, is an asterism and an...
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    Poseidon. Sterope, also Asterope, mother of King Oenomaus of Elis by Ares or wife of Oenomaus instead. Merope, youngest of the Pleiades. In other mythic contexts...
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    Observatory in Marseille, France. The asteroid was named after Asterope (or Sterope), one of the Pleiades. This asteroid is orbiting the Sun with a semimajor axis...
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  • Asterope, a Hesperide. Asterope or Sterope, one of the Pleiades. Asterope, mother of Circe and possibly Aeetes by Helius, according to some. Asterope...
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    from στεροπή, steropē, lightning), also called Asterope (Ἀστερόπη), was one of the seven Pleiades. Asterope was the daughter of Atlas and Pleione, born to...
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    mythology, Electra (/ɪˈlɛktrə/; Greek: Ἠλέκτρα 'amber') was one of the Pleiades, the seven daughters of Atlas and Pleione. She lived on the island of Samothrace...
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    are members of the Pleiades open star cluster (M45) and approximately 440 light-years from the Sun. Asterope was one of the Pleiades sisters in Greek mythology...
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    Alcyone (star) (category Pleiades)
    Hairy Head, refers to an asterism consisting Alcyone, Electra, Taygeta, Asterope, Maia, Merope, and Atlas. Consequently, the Chinese name for Alcyone itself...
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    their names. An ancient vase painting attests the following names as four: Asterope, Chrysothemis, Hygieia, and Lipara; on another seven names as Aiopis, Antheia...
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  • name of several individuals in Greek mythology: Sterope (or Asterope), one of the Pleiades and the wife of Oenomaus (or his mother by Ares). Sterope, a...
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