[1] The minor planet was discovered on 8 October 2005, by American astronomers Scott Sheppard and Chad Trujillo at Las Campanas Observatory in Chile.
[3] This minor planet was named from Greek mythology after Clete, a member of the Amazons, an all-female warrior tribe that fought in the Trojan War on the side of the Trojans against the Greek.
Clete was one of the twelve followers of the Amazonian queen Penthesilea and went looking for her after she went missing during the war.
Clete is located close to the boundary separating stable orbits from unstable ones, and it may be influenced by a secular resonance.
[6] Based on a generic magnitude-to-diameter conversion, it measures approximately 97 kilometers in diameter using an absolute magnitude of 8.3 with an assumed albedo of 0.09.