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Looking into it further, I think that the Wikipedia authors have confused two separate things.
All the other references to an asterism mention it being used to call attention to a piece of text. So it seems to me that it's rather like a fancy bullet point.
When used to separate scenes in text, I don't think it's the same thing at all - there's it just another way of doing a scene break, which can be done in a wide variety of ways, from an extra blank line, to three asterisks, to some fancy line graphic.
I certainly won't be using asterism as a work for a scene break, even when it's composed of three stars in some kind of formation.
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