65 Cybele is the eighth largest asteroid at 309km, discovered on March 8, 1861 by E.W. Tempel. The sixty-fifth asteroid discovered, the semimajor axis of its orbit is approximately 3.5AU. The Cybele Group of asteroids is named after it.
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