653 Berenike is a main-belt asteroid discovered on November 27 1907 by Joel Hastings Metcalf at Taunton Massachusetts. It is named after Berenice II of Egypt after whom the constellation Coma Berenices is also named.This is a member of the dynamic Eos family of asteroids that most likely formed as the result of a collisional breakup of a parent body.
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