124 Alkeste is a large main-belt asteroid. 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.Only one stellar occultation by Alkeste has been observed when the asteroid passed in front of the third magnitude star Beta Virginis on June 24 2003.
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