It was discovered on 18 September 1982, by Belgian astronomer Henri Debehogne at ESO' La Silla Observatory in northern Chile.
[5] In September 2013, a rotational lightcurve of this asteroid was obtained from photometric observations in the R-band at the Palomar Transient Factory in California.
It gave an exceptionally long rotation period of 1917 hours with a brightness amplitude of 0.04 magnitude (U=1).
[3] However, the fragmentary light-curve has received a low quality rating by the Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link (CALL) which means that the result could be completely wrong (also see potentially slow rotator).
[2][3] CALL assumes a standard albedo for carbonaceous asteroids of 0.057 and calculates a diameter of 5.71 kilometers, based on an absolute magnitude of 14.49.