[4][14][15]: 23 Taiwan orbits the Sun at a distance of 2.7–2.9 AU once every 4 years and 8 months (1,703 days).
[13] In the SMASS classification, and according to PanSTARRS photometric survey, Taiwan is a carbonaceous C-type asteroid.
[1][12] In September 2010, a rotational lightcurve of Taiwan was obtained from photometric observations in the R-band by astronomers at the Palomar Transient Factory in California.
Lightcurve analysis gave a rotation period of 7.252 hours with a brightness variation of 0.17 magnitude (U=2).
[2] The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 February 1980 (M.P.C.