[1] Komarov is characterized as a dark C-type asteroid by Pan-STARRS photometric survey.

[4] In July 2008, two rotational lightcurve of Komarov were independently obtained from photometric observations by astronomers Julian Oey and Peter Caspari.

Lightcurve analysis gave a rotation period of 8.8015 and 9.695 hours with a brightness amplitude of 0.39 and 0.56 magnitude, respectively (U=3/2+).

[11][a] This minor planet was named in honor of Vladimir Komarov (1927–1967), Soviet cosmonaut who headed the crewed flight on the Voskhod spacecraft.

He was killed when the Soyuz 1 space capsule crashed after re-entry on 24 April 1967, due to a parachute failure.