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651 Antikleia
651
Antikleia
is a
main-belt asteroid
discovered
on 4
October 1907
by
August Kopff
at the
Heidelberg-Königstuhl State Observatory
. It is named for
Anticlea
the
mother of
Odysseus
.
The name may have been
inspired
by the asteroid's
provisional designation
1907
AN
.
Antikleia is a member of the
dynamic
Eos
family of asteroids
that most
likely
formed as the result of a collisional breakup of a
parent body
.