[1] The dark D-type asteroid belongs to the 60 largest Jupiter trojans and has a rotation period of 20.24 hours.
[1] On 14 May 2021, the object was named by the Working Group for Small Bodies Nomenclature (WGSBN), after the Lycian soldier Charops, son of Hippasus and brother to Socus, from Greek mythology.
[4] Several rotational lightcurves of Charops have been obtained from photometric observations by Daniel Coley and Robert Stephens at GMARS (G79) and the Center for Solar System Studies, California.
Analysis of the best-rated lightcurve from October 2011 gave a rotation period of 20.24±0.01 hours with a brightness variation of 0.10±0.01 magnitude (U=2).
[4][10][11][12][a] A longer period with a high amplitude reported by Duffard Melita has received a lower rating (U=2-).