It is named for Lumen: Récits de l'infini, a book by the astronomer Camille Flammarion.

[8] Richard Binzel and Schelte Bus further added to the knowledge about this asteroid in a light-curve survey published in 2003.

This project was known as Small Main-belt Asteroid Spectroscopic Survey, Phase II or SMASSII, which built on a previous survey of the main-belt asteroids.

The visible-wavelength (0.435–0.925 micrometre) spectra data was gathered between August 1993 and March 1999.

[9] Lightcurve data has also been recorded by observers at the Antelope Hill Observatory, which has been designated as an official observatory by the Minor Planet Center.