Focus On: (8) Flora

Basics

Class: S-type asteroid
Location: Main belt
Orbit length (approx): 3.27 years
Discovered: 18th October 1847 (time unknown), from London, UK, by John Russell Hind
Events at time of discovery:

• September 30 – The Vegetarian Society is formed in the United Kingdom (it remains the oldest in the world).
• October 17 – Birth of Chiquinha Gonzaga, Brazilian composer
• October 19 – Charlotte Brontë publishes Jane Eyre in the UK under the pen name of Currer Bell.
• – Birth of Aurilla Furber, American author, editor, and activist

Focus On: (5) Astraea

Basics

Class: S-type asteroid
Location: Main belt
Orbit length (approx): 4.14 years
Discovered: 8th December 1845 (time unknown) from Driesen, Poland, by Karl Ludwig Hencke
Events at time of discovery:

• 1845 – Friedrich Engels' treatise The Condition of the Working Class in England is published in Leipzig.
• – Eugénie Luce founds the Luce Ben Aben School in Algiers.
• August 28 – The journal Scientific American begins publication.
• September 9 – Potato blight breaks out in Ireland, beginning the Great Famine.
• December 2 – Manifest destiny: U.S. President James K. Polk announces to Congress that the Monroe Doctrine should be strictly enforced, and that the United States should aggressively expand into the West.
• December 9 – Birth of Joel Chandler Harris, author of the Uncle Remus series