Editing 8 Flora (section)

==Discovery and naming==
Flora was discovered by [[John Russell Hind|J. R. Hind]] on 18 October 1847. It was his second asteroid discovery after [[7 Iris]].{{citation needed|date=October 2020}}

The name Flora was proposed by [[John Herschel]], from [[Flora (goddess)|Flora]], the [[Roman mythology|Latin goddess]] of flowers and gardens, wife of [[Zephyrus]] (the [[personification]] of the West wind), and mother of Spring. The Greek equivalent is [[Chloris]], who has her own asteroid, [[410 Chloris]], but in Greek 8 Flora is also called 8 Chloris (8 Χλωρίς).{{citation needed|date=October 2020}}
The old iconic symbol for 8 Flora has been variously rendered as [[File:Flora symbol (fixed width).svg|24px]], [[File:Flora symbol (simple, fixed width).svg|24px]], etc. It is in the pipeline for [[Unicode]] 17.0 as U+1CEC2 𜻂 ([[File:Flora symbol (fixed width).svg|12px]]).<ref name=astunicode>{{cite web |url=https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2023/23207-historical-asteroids.pdf |title=Unicode request for historical asteroid symbols |last1=Bala |first1=Gavin Jared |last2=Miller |first2=Kirk |date=18 September 2023 |website=unicode.org |publisher=Unicode |access-date=26 September 2023 |quote=}}</ref><ref name=pipeline>{{cite web |url=https://unicode.org/alloc/Pipeline.html |title=Proposed New Characters: The Pipeline |author=Unicode |date= |website=unicode.org |publisher=The Unicode Consortium |access-date=6 November 2023 |quote=}}</ref>