* Astronomy

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 favourable opposition near perihelion, such as will occur in mid November 2007.

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Date    TT    R. A. (2000) Decl.     Delta      r     Elong.  Phase     V

2007 10 28    04 04.92   +09 57.0    0.929    1.861   151.0    15.0     8.4
2007 11 02    04 01.46   +09 45.6    0.911    1.863   156.4    12.3     8.3
2007 11 07    03 57.24   +09 36.0    0.898    1.865   161.6     9.7     8.1
2007 11 12    03 52.44   +09 28.9    0.891    1.868   166.3     7.2     8.0
2007 11 17    03 47.28   +09 25.1    0.890    1.871   169.4     5.6     8.0
2007 11 22    03 42.00   +09 25.1    0.894    1.874   169.3     5.6     8.0
2007 11 27    03 36.85   +09 29.3    0.904    1.877   166.1     7.2     8.1
2007 12 02    03 32.05   +09 38.0    0.920    1.881   161.4     9.6     8.2
2007 12 07    03 27.81   +09 51.2    0.941    1.885   156.2    12.2     8.4
2007 12 12    03 24.28   +10 09.0    0.968    1.889   150.8    14.7     8.5
2007 12 17    03 21.61   +10 31.1    0.999    1.894   145.5    17.1     8.6
2007 12 22    03 19.87   +10 57.1    1.035    1.899   140.3    19.3     8.8
2007 12 27    03 19.08   +11 26.7    1.075    1.904   135.3    21.3     8.9