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Coma Berenices

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COMA BERENICES ("Berenice's hair"), in astronomy, a constellation of the northern hemisphere ; it was first mentioned by Callimachus, and Eratosthenes (3rd century B.C.), but is not included in the 48 asterisms of Ptolemy.