137 Meliboea is a large dark main-belt asteroid that was discovered by Austrian astronomer J. Palisa on April 21 1874 the second of his many asteroid discoveries and named after one of the three Meliboeas in Greek mythology. The largest body in the Meliboea family of asteroids that share similar orbital elements only 791 Ani approaches its size.
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