195 Eurykleia is a fairly large main belt asteroid.
It was discovered by the Austrian astronomer Johann Palisa on April 19, 1879, and named after Euryclea, the wet-nurse of Odysseus in The Odyssey.
This body is orbiting the Sun with a period of 4.88 years and a low eccentricity (ovalness) of 0.04.
It is spinning with a rotation period of 16.5 hours and varies in brightness with an amplitude of 0.24 magnitude.
The asteroid has a taxonomic type of Ch in the SMASS classification,[3] which indicates it has a dark surface with a primitive carbonaceous composition.