Flora
8 Flora (A847 UA)
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Physical data
- Diameter
- 147.491 km
- Rotation period
- 12.865 hours
- Albedo
- 0.226
- Absolute magnitude H
- 6.62 mag
- Spectral type (Tholen)
- S
Orbit
- Orbit class (JPL)
- MBA — Main-belt Asteroid
- Semi-major axis
- 2.2 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.156
- Inclination
- 5.89°
- Perihelion distance
- 1.86 AU
- Aphelion distance
- 2.55 AU
- Orbital period
- 1,190 days
- Perihelion passage
- JD 2461534.376
- Earth MOID
- 0.874 AU
Earth approach
- Potentially hazardous (PHA)
- No
- Near-Earth object (NEO)
- No
In everyday life
- About 147 km across — 36.9% of the 400 km Seoul–Busan expressway.
- One orbit takes about 1,190 Earth days (about 3.3 years).
- Sunlight needs about 18 minutes to reach it on average (semi-major axis 2.2 AU) — versus about 8 min 19 s to Earth.
Worked out from this object's official values.