Asteroid 897, Lysistrata, was discovered on August 3, 1918 by Maximilian Wolf at Heidelberg, Germany. It has a period of 4 years, 19 days and is slightly over 15 miles in diameter.
It was named after the famous comedy by the ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes. Lysistrata, the title character of the play, engineered an end to a war by persuading her fellow housewives of Athens to stop having sex with their husbands until they called off the war. The name Lysistrata is Greek for "army disbander."
The meaning of asteroid Lysistrata has been said to be the healing and manipulative power of sex.