8 Flora (A847 UA)
8 Flora (A847 UA) (Asteroid). See its size, orbit and live position on a 3D map of the Solar System. 8 Flora is a large, bright main-belt asteroid.
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.
- Type: Asteroid
- Diameter: 148 km
- Orbital period: 3.3 years
- Eccentricity: 0.156