124 Alkeste
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| Orbital period | 1,556 days |
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| Discovered | August 23, 1872 |
| Gravity | 0. 0214 m/s² |
| Orbits | Sun |
| Spectral type | S-type asteroid |
| Discoverer | Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters |
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| ID | 2957854 |
About 124 Alkeste
Alkeste is a large main-belt asteroid, and it is an S-type in composition. C. H. F. Peters discovered the asteroid on August 23, 1872, from the observatory at Hamilton College, New York State. The name was chosen by Adelinde Weiss, wife of the astronomer Edmund Weiss, and refers to Alcestis, a woman in Greek mythology.