1087 Arabis

Heidelberg Observatory in 1927 and assigned the provisional designation 1927 RD. The asteroid was named after the flowering plant Arabis (rockcress).^[15]

Nikolaj Ivanov at the Simeiz Observatory on the Crimean peninsula.^[3] The Minor Planet Center does not acknowledge these independent discoverers.^[15]

606),^[4][5] the largest asteroid family in the outer main belt consisting of nearly 10,000 known asteroids.^[16]: 23 It orbits the Sun at a distance of 2.7–3.3 AU once every 5 years and 3 months (1,911 days). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.09 and an inclination of 10° with respect to the ecliptic.^[1] The body's observation arc begins with its official discovery observation at Heidelberg.^[15]

Tholen classification, Arabis is a common S-type asteroid.^[1][4]

U=3/3).^[11][13]

albedo between 0.098 and 0.2248.^{[6][7][8][9][10]}

H 102).^[3]

(1200). This list also contained a sequence of 28 asteroids, starting with 1054 Forsytia, that were all named after plants, in particular flowering plants (also see list of minor planets named after animals and plants).^[17]