259 Aletheia is a very large main-belt asteroid that was discovered by C. H. F. Peters on June 28 1886 in Clinton New York. It is named after the Greek goddess Aletheia. This asteroid is composed of primitive carbonaceous materials and is very dark in colour darker than coal.[citation needed]Richard P. Binzel and Schelte Bus further added to the knowledge about this asteroid in a lightwave survey published in 2003.
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