Flora family

This means that the Flora family represents 4-5% of all main belt asteroids.

It is associated with the Flora family of asteroids.

It is a member of the Flora family; the largest of the asteroid families.

The Flora family, one of the largest with more than 800 known members, may have formed from a collision less than a billion years ago.

The Flora family was one of the five original Hirayama families that were first identified.

It is certainly not related to the bulk of the Flora family, and is an unrelated interloper.

The unusual spectrum brings Leonisis' membership in the Flora family into doubt.

The couple ran the Flora Families marathon to support Women's Aid.

Although it has an orbit similar to the Flora family asteroids, it was found to be an unrelated asteroid.

Lundia orbits within the Flora family.

Flora, and the whole Flora family generally, are good candidates for being the parent bodies of the L chondrite meteorites.

The parent body/bodies for this group are not known, but plausible suggestions include 433 Eros and 8 Flora, or the Flora family as a whole.

It is the namesake of the Amneris family, a subgroup of the Flora family of Main Belt asteroids.

Flora is the parent body of the Flora family of asteroids, and by far the biggest member, having about 80% of the total mass of this family.

The Flora family of asteroids may be the source of the Chicxlub (Cretaceous-Paleogene) impactor, the likely culprit in the extinction of the dinosaurs.

Some families (e.g. the Flora family) have complex internal structures which are not satisfactorily explained at the moment, but may be due to several collisions in the same region at different times.

The Flora family of asteroids is a big group of S-type asteroids in the closer part of the main belt, whose origin and properties are not well understood right now.

In 2010, another theory implicated the newly discovered asteroid P/2010 A2, a member of the Flora family of asteroids, as a possible remnant cohort of the Chicxulub impactor.

The Flora family is very broad and gradually fades into the background population (which is particularly dense in this part of space) in such a way that its boundaries are very poorly defined.

The Flora family members are considered good candidates for being the parent bodies of the L chondrite meteorites (Nesvorny 2002), which contribute about 38% of all meteorites impacting the Earth.

Although it has an orbit similar to the Flora family asteroids, it actually has a V-type spectrum, indicating a possible origin as a fragment ejected from 4 Vesta by an impact.

Although it has an orbit similar to the Flora family asteroids, it appears to be an unrelated interloper due to not being of the S spectral type (see the PDS asteroid taxonomy data set).

The V-type spectrum says that it is not genetically related to the Flora family, but rather is probably a piece (actually two pieces) blown off the surface of nearby 4 Vesta by a big impact in the past.

A probable reason is that the collision that produced the Flora family and Gaspra was relatively recent on an astronomical timescale, so that Gaspra has not yet had the opportunity to acquire many large craters since.

Since the Flora family is located next to this resonance and matches the composition of most NEAs, it is highly likely that it is the source of many NEAs and PHAs.