It was discovered on 8 November 1948, by French astronomer Marguerite Laugier at Nice Observatory in south-east France.
[2] The C-type asteroid orbits the Sun in the outer main-belt at a distance of 2.7–3.3 AU once every 5 years and 4 months (1,935 days).
[9] Photometric observation in the R-band at the Palomar Transient Factory in November 2011, gave a shorter period of 19.0808 hours with an amplitude of 0.30 magnitude (U=2).
[4][5][6][7] The Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link derives an albedo of 0.064 and a diameter of 31.63 kilometers based on an absolute magnitude of 11.1.
He lived in the Austrian town of Ried im Innkreis and was known for his calculations of orbital elements for asteroids.