It was discovered on 15 October 1909, by German astronomer Joseph Helffrich at Heidelberg Observatory in southwest Germany.
[2] Nancy is a non-family asteroid of the main belt's background population.
[2] The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 April 1978 (M.P.C.
[3] As of 2018, only a single fragmentary lightcurve of Nancy has been obtained from photometric observation.
Analysis of the rotational lightcurve gives a period of 15 hours with a brightness variation of 0.08 magnitude (U=1).