It was discovered on 22 March 1949, by French astronomer Louis Boyer at Algiers Observatory in Algeria, northern Africa.
[2] The C-type asteroid orbits the Sun in the outer main-belt at a distance of 3.4–3.7 AU once every 6 years and 8 months (2,429 days).
[11] In March 2009, a rotational lightcurve of Meyer was obtained from photometric observations by Landry Carbo at the Oakley Southern Sky Observatory in Australia.
[3][5][6] The Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link derives an albedo of 0.0559 and calculates a diameter of 58.88 kilometers with an absolute magnitude of 9.9.
[4] This minor planet was named for French astronomer M. Georges Meyer (born 1894), director of the discovering Algiers Observatory.