It was discovered on 3 October 1934, by Soviet astronomer Grigory Neujmin at the Simeiz Observatory on the Crimean peninsula.
[1] This minor planet was named in honor of Soviet cosmonaut Valentina "Chaika" Tereshkova (born 1937).
Tereshkova received the call sign "Chaika" – the Russian word for seagull – as she was the first woman to fly in space.
[11] In November 2005, a rotational lightcurve of Chaika was obtained from photometric observations by Italian astronomers Roberto Crippa, Federico Manzini and Josep Coloma.
[10] John Menke in collaboration with Walter Cooney and David Higgins determined a concurring period of 3.774±0.003 hours with an amplitude of 0.20 magnitude (U=3).