[10] The dark C-type asteroid, classified as a rare intermediate CU-type in the Tholen taxonomy.

[1] In February 2009, a rotational lightcurve of Oort was obtained from photometric observations taken by French amateur astronomer René Roy.

[4][5][6] The Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link assumes an albedo of 0.10 and calculates a diameter of 27.13 kilometers with an absolute magnitude of 10.95.

[3] This minor planet was named in honor of Dutch astronomer Jan Oort (1900–1992), director of the Leiden Observatory (1945–1970), president of the International Astronomical Union (1958–1961), and a well-known authority on stellar statistics and galactic structure.

The Oort cloud, the outermost gravitationally bound region of the Solar System, was also named after him.