The asteroid was discovered by German amateur astronomer Wolf Bickel at his private Bergisch Gladbach Observatory on 22 September 1998.
It orbits the Sun at a distance of 2.7–2.9 AU once every 4 years and 9 months (1,743 days).
[2] According to the survey carried out by the NEOWISE mission of NASA's space-based Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, Ikeller measures 5.4 kilometers in diameter and its surface has an albedo of 0.22,[4] while the Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link assumes a standard albedo for Koronian asteroids of 0.24 and thus calculates a smaller diameter of 5.2 kilometers, as the higher the albedo (reflectivity), the smaller a body's diameter at a certain absolute magnitude (brightness).
Lightcurve analysis gave a rotation period of 7.0423 hours with a brightness variation of 0.44 magnitude (U=2).
[2] The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 16 January 2014 (M.P.C.