(3231) Mila

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( 3231 ) Mila is an asteroid of the inner main belt, discovered by Soviet astronomer Ljudmyla Schurawlowa on September 4, 1972 at the Crimean Observatory in Nautschnyj (IAU code 095). Unconfirmed sightings of the asteroid it had previously been several: among other things, on August 21, 1949 ( 1949 qj1 ), August 27, 1949 (1949 QN1 ) and 14 March 1955 ( 1955 EL) at the Goethe Link Observatory, Indiana.

Mean distance from the sun ( semimajor axis), eccentricity and inclination of the orbital plane of the asteroid roughly correspond to the Vesta family, a large group of asteroids, named after ( 4) Vesta, the second largest asteroid and the third-largest celestial body of the main belt. After FORMING classification (Small Main -Belt Asteroid Spectroscopic Survey) were assumed in ( 3231 ) Mila by a dark surface at a spectroscopic investigation of Gianluca Masi, Sergio Foglia and Richard P. Binzel, it might be so, roughly speaking, to act a C- asteroids.

( 3231 ) Mila was named on 31 May 1988 following the Soviet figure skater Lyudmila Alexeyevna Pakhomova ( 1946-1986 ), who was in the ice dancing world champion, European champion and Olympic champion. The Mars crater Mila other hand, was named after the Algerian town of Mila 1976.