Discovered by Eugène Delporte at Uccle Observatory in 1933, the asteroid was named after French astronomer Jules Baillaud.
[9] Baillauda was discovered by Belgian astronomer Eugène Delporte at the Royal Observatory of Belgium in Uccle on 18 August 1933.
[9] On the following night, it was independently discovered by Soviet astronomer Grigory Neujmin at Simeiz Observatory on the Crimean peninsula.
[4] It orbits the Sun in the outer asteroid belt at a distance of 3.2–3.6 AU once every 6 years and 4 months (2,304 days; semi-major axis of 3.41).
[5][6] The Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link adopts the results obtained by IRAS, that is an albedo of 0.0505 and a diameter of 50.83 kilometers based on an absolute magnitude of 10.33.