[9] It was named for Beryl H. Potter, a long-time research assistant of the discovering program.
[2] Beryl is a non-family asteroid of the main belt's background population when applying the hierarchical clustering method to its proper orbital elements.
[4][9] In May 2009, a rotational lightcurve of Beryl was obtained from photometric observations by Julian Oey at the Leura (E17) and Kingsgrove (E19) observatories in Australia.
Lightcurve analysis gave a rotation period of 4.8888±0.0003 hours and a brightness variation of 0.20 magnitude (U=3).
[8] In addition, a nearly identical period of 4.889±0.0014 hours with an amplitude of 0.14 was determined in the R-band by astronomers at the Palomar Transient Factory in October 2010 (U=2).