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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 kilometers, and not until 20-km 149 Medusa was discovered was an asteroid known to orbit at a closer mean distance. It is the seventh-brightest asteroid with a mean opposition magnitude of +8.7. Flora can reach a magnitude of +8.1 at a favorable opposition near perihelion, such as occurred in November 2020 when it was 0.88 AU from Earth.

Discovery and naming
Flora was discovered by J. R. Hind on 18 October 1847. It was his second asteroid discovery after 7 Iris. The original description for the symbol described it as a flower, but later authors per Schmadel (2012) identified it as the Rose of England. ==Characteristics==
Characteristics
. Flora is third from the right. Lightcurve analysis indicates that Flora's pole points towards ecliptic coordinates (β, λ) = (16°, 160°) with a 10° uncertainty. This meteorite type comprises 35% of meteorites impacting the Earth. ==Observational history==
Observational history
During an observation on 25 March 1917, 8 Flora was mistaken for the 15th-magnitude star TU Leonis, which led to that star's classification as a U Geminorum cataclysmic variable star. On 26 July 2013, Flora at magnitude 8.8 occulted the star 2UCAC 22807162 over parts of South America, Africa, and Asia. ==Notes==
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