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Definition of Coma berenices
1. Noun. A constellation in the northern hemisphere between Ursa Major and Bootes; contains a cluster of some 10,000 galaxies.
Definition of Coma berenices
1. Proper noun. (constellation) A small dim summer constellation of the northern sky, said to represent an offering of hair from w:Berenice II Queen Berenice II of Egypt. Originally considered to represent the tuft of hair on the end of Leo's tail. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
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Literary usage of Coma berenices
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Observatory by Royal Astronomical Society (Gran Bretaña), Royal Greenwich Observatory, NASA Astrophysics Data System Abstract Service, Royal astronomical society GB (1899)
"GENTLEMEN,— Conon and coma berenices. ... The arrangement by which coma berenices
was accepted as a separate constellation was adopted by ..."
2. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society by Royal Astronomical Society (1862)
"... the distance there mentioned was six-tenths, which was inadvertently printed
as one-sixteenth. On the Missing Nebula in coma berenices. By M. Chacornac. ..."
3. The Stars: A Study of the Universe by Simon Newcomb (1906)
"The singular collection of bright stars which form Orion, the most brilliant
constellation in the heavens, and the little group called coma berenices—the ..."
4. A New Treatise on the Use of the Globes, Or, A Philosophical View of the by Thomas Keith (1811)
"coma berenices is composed of the unformed stars, between the Lion's tail and
Bootes. ... coma berenices ..."
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