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186 Celuta is a fairly large Main belt asteroid. It was discovered by the French astronomers Paul Henry and Prosper Henry on April 6 1878. This was the last discovery credited to the Prosper brothers. It is classified as an S-type asteroid.The asteroid is named after Céluta a female character in two works of fiction by François-René de Chateaubriand Atala (1801) and René (1802). The Henry brothers had already named another of their discoveries 152 Atala after the heroine of Atala.