3988 Huma, provisional designation 1986 LA, is an eccentric sub-kilometer asteroid and near-Earth object of the Amor group.
[3] The asteroid measures approximately 700 to 800 meters in diameter and was named after the Huma bird from Iranian mythology.
Huma is a stony S-type asteroid that orbits the Sun in the inner main-belt at a distance of 1.1–2.0 AU once every 1 years and 11 months (701 days).
[a] In the 1990s, Dutch–American astronomer Tom Gehrels estimated Huma to measure 0.7 kilometers in diameter, based on an assumed medium albedo of 0.15.
[4] This minor planet was named after the Huma bird from Persian mythology and Sufi poetry.