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Named in honor of Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Mikhailov {1888–1983}, a prominent Soviet astronomer and gravimetrist, academician, president of the Astronomical Council of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1939–1962), vice-president of the International Astronomical Union (1946–1948), director of the Pulkovo Observatory (1947–1964). (M 3937)

Obituaries published in Astron. Zh., Tom 61, Vyp. 2, p. 412–413 (1984); Geod. i kartogr., No. 12, p. 55–56 (1983); Vesmír, Vol. 63, No. 4, p. 126 (1984); Zemlya Vselennaya, No. 2, p. 59–62 (1984); Sov. Astron., Vol. 28, No. 2, p. 243–244 (1984); Tsirk. Vses. astron.-geod. o-vo Akad. Nauk SSSR, No. 37, p. 78–88 (1984); Vestn. AN SSSR, No. 2, p. 99 (1984); Q.J.R. Astron. Soc., Vol. 26, No. 3, p. 209 (1985).