402 Chloë (prov. designation: or ) is a large main-belt asteroid. It was discovered by French astronomer Auguste Charlois on 21 March 1895 from Nice. This asteroid is orbiting the Sun at a distance of with a period of and an eccentricity of 0.11. The orbital plane is inclined at an angle of 11.8° to the plane of the ecliptic.

This asteroid spans a girth of approximately 54km. It is classified as a K-type asteroid and is a Barbarian, which means it belongs to a class of asteroids of which 234 Barbara is the prototype. Analysis of the asteroid light curve, based on photometric data collected during 2009, show a rotation period of with a brightness variation of in magnitude.

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• , Palmer Divide Observatory, B. D. Warner (2009)

• Asteroid Lightcurve Database (LCDB), query form (info )

• Dictionary of Minor Planet Names, Google books

• Asteroids and comets rotation curves, CdR – Observatoire de Genève, Raoul Behrend

• Discovery Circumstances: Numbered Minor Planets (1)-(5000) – Minor Planet Center