Asteroid 887, Alinda, was discovered on January 3, 1918 by Maximilian Wolf at Heidelberg, Baden-Wurttemburg, Germany. It has a period of 3 years, 329 days and is about 3 miles in diameter.
It was named either for an ancient Hittite city near what is now Karpuzlu, Aydin province, Turkey in the central part of the country which was a commercial center in ancient times and Roman Catholic diocese (since the 1970s in name only), or for a moon god in Yolngu Australian Aboriginal mythology. At the city Alinda, the Anatolian queen Ada of Caria, who had become a vassal of Persia, offered to adopt the conquering Alexander the Great and make him her heir if he would reinstate her on the throne, which he agreed to. The god Alinda drowned his sons for lying about catching nothing when he sent them out to catch fish, and in revenge their mothers torched his hut as he slept, but he rose into the sky and became the moon and decreed that all on earth would die, except him, who would only die for three days out of every month.
Asteroid Alinda seems to mean: to kiss or make out (Damien Foor), concern for sex, sex or possibly aggressive actions backfiring.