8 Flora

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What Wikipedia says

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 kilometers (20% that of Flora), and not until 20-km 149 Medusa was discovered was an asteroid known to orbit at a closer mean distance.

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Image: VSO Very Large Telescope SPHERE/ZIMPOL team, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.