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8 Flora
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.〔Binsel, Richard P.; Gehrels, Tom and Matthews, Mildred Shapley (editors); ''Asteroids II''; published 1989 by University of Arizona Press; pp. 1038-1040. ISBN 0-8165-1123-3〕 It is the seventh brightest asteroid with a mean opposition magnitude of +8.7.〔(The Brightest Asteroids ) (archived)〕 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.
==Discovery and naming==
Flora was discovered by J. R. Hind on October 18, 1847. It was his second asteroid discovery after 7 Iris.
The name Flora was proposed by John Herschel, from Flora, the Latin goddess of flowers and gardens, wife of Zephyrus (the personification of the West wind), and mother of Spring. The Greek equivalent is Chloris, who has her own asteroid, 410 Chloris, but in Greek Flora is also called Chloris (8 Χλωρίς).
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