Leukothea is asteroid #35 and of the type C. Leukothea was discovered by the Prussian astronomer Karl Theodor Robert Luther at the Düsseldorf-Bilk Observatory. Leukothea’s orbit is characterized by a semi-major axis of 2.99 Astronomical Units, an eccentricity of 0.23, a period of revolution of 1 889 days, and an inclination of 7.9 degrees.

Leukothea is named after the sea goddess Leukothea from Greek mythology. Leukothea literally means white goddess. Two variants of her tale of origin are known. A woman named Ino cared for Dionysos (Διόνυσος) while he was a child, so Hera punished her with madness and Ino killed herself by jumping from a cliff into the sea. The sons of a woman named Halia denied the goddess Aphrodite access to their island Rhodos, so Aphrodite punished them with madness and they committed every possible crime, preferably with their own mother as the victim. Halia then also killed herself by jumping from a cliff into the sea. Both variants continue in the way that the woman drowned and then Zeús (Ζεύς) prevented the woman’s soul entering the underworld and turned her into the goddess Leukothea instead. She is a sea goddess and saves humans, who fell into the sea, from drowning. She also saved the life of Odysseus this way.

Ino and Halia both have tragic fates. But these aren’t relevant here because the asteroid is neither named Ino nor Halia, asteroid #173 instead is named after Ino. The asteroid #35 is named Leukothea and this is the name of only the already transformed woman and not of what or who she was before. Leukothea is a sea goddess, who saves lives. Thus she should be an opposing force to Triton, but Trítōn (Τρίτων) is in the sky only represented by a natural satellite (Neptune I) of Neptune, although many things (rivers, an island, towns, a mountain, several biological species) on Earth are named after Trítōn (Τρίτων). The latter is quite strange considering that Trítōn (Τρίτων) pushes stranded ships and sailors back into the sea. But Leukothea is doing the exact opposite. So Leukothea in an astrological chart hints to surviving life-threatening situations offshore. In case that somebody is rescued by somebody else, Leukothea represents not the survivor, but the helping hand.