[3] In September 2007, a fragmentary rotational lightcurve of Maresjev was obtained from photometric observations by astronomers at the Oakley Observatory in the United States.
Lightcurve analysis gave a rotation period of 11.6 hours with a brightness amplitude of 0.42 magnitude (U=1).
[5][6][7][8] The Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link assumes an albedo of 0.0580 and calculates a diameter of 28.96 kilometers based on an absolute magnitude of 11.4.
[3] This minor planet was named after Alexey Maresyev (1916–2001), a Soviet war veteran and fighter ace.
[1][10] The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 April 1980 (M.P.C.