It was discovered on 22 July 1930, by Soviet astronomer Grigory Neujmin at the Simeiz Observatory on the Crimean peninsula.
[16] In the Tholen classification, Scythia is a stony S-type asteroid,[1][4] unlike the overall spectral type of the Ursula family which is that of a C- and X-type.
[17]: 23 In September 2003, a rotational lightcurve of Scythia was obtained from photometric observations by Robert Stephens at the Santana Observatory in California.
[6][7][8][9][10][11][14] The Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link adopts the results obtained by IRAS, that is, an albedo of 0.0512 and a diameter of 67.14 kilometers based on an absolute magnitude of 9.71.
[4] This minor planet was named after the ancient region of Scythia, located east of the Black Sea.