[1] This minor planet was named in memory of F. A. Muñoz, who was an assistant at the La Plata Observatory in the department of extra-meridian astronomy.
[2] The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 August 1980 (M.P.C.
In September 2017, two rotational lightcurves were obtained from photometric observations by Pravec in collaboration with Serbian astronomer Vladimir Benishek at Belgrade Observatory, who observed the asteroid over three subsequent nights at Sopot Astronomical Observatory (K90).
Analysis of the bimodal lightcurve gave a well-defined, nearly identical rotation period of 5.3451±0.0008 and 5.3456±0.0007 hours, respectively, with a brightness amplitude of 0.36 magnitude (U=3).
[6][7][8][10][11] The Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link assumes an albedo of 0.24 – derived from 8 Flora, the principal body of the Flora family – and calculates a diameter of 7.82 kilometers based on an absolute magnitude of 12.7.