8 Flora

Summary

8 Flora is an asteroid^[1]. It ranks in the top 0.66% of asteroid entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (66 views/month, #27 of 4,107).^[2]

Key Facts

• 8 Flora is credited with the discovery of John Russell Hind^[3].
• 8 Flora's image is recorded as 8 Flora VLT (2021), deconvolved.pdf^[4].
• 8 Flora's instance of is recorded as asteroid^[5].
• 8 Flora's site of astronomical discovery is recorded as Bishop Observatory^[6].
• Flora is named after 8 Flora^[7].
• 8 Flora's follows is recorded as 7 Iris^[8].
• 8 Flora's followed by is recorded as 9 Metis^[9].
• 8 Flora's minor planet group is recorded as asteroid belt^[10].
• 8 Flora's astronomic symbol image is recorded as Flora symbol (fixed width).svg^[11].
• 8 Flora's Commons category is recorded as 8 Flora^[12].
• 8 Flora's parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun^[13].
• 8 Flora's provisional designation is recorded as A847 UA^[14].
• 8 Flora's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1847-10-18T00:00:00Z^[15].
• 8 Flora's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/035ywm^[16].
• 8 Flora's JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 20000008^[17].
• 8 Flora's asteroid spectral type is recorded as S-type asteroid^[18].
• 8 Flora's significant event is recorded as naming^[19].
• 8 Flora's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.1563337133955282'}^[20].
• 8 Flora's apparent magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+11.02'}^[21].
• 8 Flora's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0027223^[22].
• 8 Flora's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+6.61'}^[23].
• 8 Flora's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+5.886'}^[24].
• 8 Flora's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+5.890326395333704'}^[25].
• 8 Flora's density is recorded as {'unit': 'Q13147228', 'amount': '+6.5'}^[26].
• 8 Flora's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q573', 'amount': '+1192.942186357289'}^[27].

Body

Designation and Status

8 Flora's instance of is recorded as asteroid^[5].

History and Context

Flora is named after 8 Flora^[7].

Cultural Significance

Things named for 8 Flora include Flora family^[28], an asteroid family^[29].

Why It Matters

8 Flora ranks in the top 0.66% of asteroid entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (66 views/month, #27 of 4,107).^[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[30] It is known by 25 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[31]

Entities named for it include Flora family^[28], an asteroid family^[29].