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8 Flora

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8 Flora is a large, bright main-belt asteroid.

It is the innermost large asteroid: no asteroid closer to the Sun has a diameter above 25 kilometres or two-elevenths that of Flora itself, and not until the tiny 149 Medusa was discovered was a single asteroid orbiting at a closer mean distance known. It is the seventh brightest asteroid with a mean opposition magnitude of +8.7. Flora can reach a magnitude of +7.9 at a favorable opposition near perihelion, such as occurred in November 2007. Flora may be the residual core of an intensely heated, thermally evolved, and magmatically differentiated planetesimal which was subsequently disrupted.

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Asymmetric, Open shape, Monochrome, Contains both straight and curved lines, Has crossing lines.

Category: Astronomical Symbols.

8 Flora is part of the Asteroids group.

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