The orbit is located at the outter main belt. It has a perihelion of 2.45 AU and an aphelion of 3.79 AU. The semimajor axis is at 3.12 AU. It has an orbital period of 5 years and 189 days. It has an inclination of 13.4º. It has a diameter of about 145 km.
There are photometric obsrvations in the years 1990-1991, 2002 and 2009. Star occultations occured in May of 2001, September of 2007, November of 2009 and January of 2016.
16:3 with Saturn (99.9%)
15:7 with Jupiter (99.7%)
1:9 with Venus (99.6%)
2:11 with Earth-Moon (99.6%)
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5:6 with Ceres-Pallas (99.8%)
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7:9 with Eunomia (99.8%)
15:13 with Cybele (99.6%)
10:11 with Psyche (99.6%)
5:6 with Herculina (99.5%)
Greek mythology
Meliboea was a young maiden of Ephesus, who had a loving relationship with a young man named Alexis. However, her parents betrothed her to another man, so that Alexis, desperate, had to leave the city.
On her wedding day, Meliboea tried to kill herself by jumping off the roof, but landed unhurt. She fled to the seashore, where she found a boat. When she mounted on it, the ropes loosened on their own and the boat got out at sea. Without direction, the boat took her to the port of a city, in which Meliboea found Alexis, who was preparing a feast with his friends.
The reunited lovers got married, and in gratitude, two temples were dedicated to the goddess Aphrodite, called "Automate" (spontaneous or by it self) and "Epidaetia" (time to sit at the table to eat).
(137) Meliboea is related with the ability to be placed at the right time and place, respect to what one is wishing, like at the end of the movie "Serendipity" (2001) and at the beginning of the movie "Pretty Woman" (1990), or in the movies "Star Trek" (2009), "Dragon Fly" (2002) and "The Silence of the Lambs" (1991).
Shakti Gawain, author of the book "Creative Visualization" (1978), has Meliboea in Cancer in trine with Mercury in Scorpio, and in square with Vesta in Libra. Mercury also forms a trine with Uranus in Cancer, and a sextile with Saturn in Virgo.
