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197 Arete

 

197 Arete

197 Arete ("uh RETT ee") is a Main belt asteroid. It has a very bright surface, unusually bright even for a rocky S-type asteroid.

It was discovered by J. Palisa on May 21, 1879, and named after Arete, the mother of Nausicaa in Homer's The Odyssey.


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