Dipper's

Astronomers have found an additional star located in the Dipper's gripper that is invisible to the unaided eye.

Extra Star Found in the Big Dipper | Universe Today 2009

Alcor, one of the stars that makes the bend in the Big Dipper's handle has a smaller red dwarf companion orbiting it.

Extra Star Found in the Big Dipper | Universe Today 2009

That that might help us Dipper's elsewhere is just gravy.

Debate Update II ALW 2006

What they probed was an apparently empty quadrant in the vicinity of the Big Dipper's handle.

A Space in Time 2002

What they probed was an apparently empty quadrant in the vicinity of the Big Dipper's handle.

A Space in Time 2002

Polaris, at a distance equal to five times the space that separates these two stars of the Dipper's outer side.

Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts Girl Scouts of the United States of America 1918

Then he showed me Benetnasch at the end of the Dipper's handle, and Mizar at the bend in the handle, then

The Prairie Child Arthur Stringer 1912

Make haste to Mrs. Dipper's and get yourself dry – and don't come back till you are quite dry, Sam.

Melbourne House 1907

"As soon as you have done that, Sam, run down to Mrs. Dipper's, and maybe she can give you something dry to put on while your clothes can be hung out."

Melbourne House 1907

For the first time, I learned that what looks like a single star in the middle of the Big Dipper's handle is actually Mizar, a system of four stars, and the system Alcor, which includes two more.

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