8 Flora & Goddess Flora, Smecno, Czechia
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ashberry
N 50° 11.320 E 014° 01.989
33U E 430980 N 5560055
Planetka nacházející se v hlavním pásu asteroidu // Asteroid in the main asteroid belt
Waymark Code: WM11WVN
Location: Středočeský kraj, Czechia
Date Posted: 12/31/2019
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CZ: 8 Flora je velká jasná planetka hlavního pásu. Objevil ji 18. ríjna 1847 John Russell Hind. Její velikost ciní asi 136 × 136 × 113 km (podle jiného zdroje však asi 145 × 145 × 120 km), jde tedy o vetší planetku.
Flora, latinsky Flora, byla rímská, puvodne sabinská, bohyne kvetu a jara. Její svátek Floralia se konal 28. dubna. Mezi známé obrazy na kterých se Flora objevuje patrí Botticelliho Primavera, Tizianova Flora nebo Rembrandtova Flora.
EN: 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 favorable opposition near perihelion, such as occurred in November 2007. Flora may be the residual core of an intensely heated, thermally evolved, and magmatically differentiated planetesimal which was subsequently disrupted.
Flora, in Latin Flora, was Roman, originally Sabine, goddess of flowers and spring. Her feast of Floralia took place on 28th April. Famous paintings in which Flora appears include Botticelli's Primavera, Titian's Flora or Rembrandt's Flora.
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