Alconrad belongs to the Koronis family, a collisional group of stony asteroids consisting of a few hundred known bodies with nearly ecliptical orbits.

[2] In December 2009, a rotational lightcurve of Alconrad was obtained from photometric observations at the ground-based Wise Observatory in Mitzpe Ramon, Israel.

[7] In October 2013, photometric observations by astronomers in the R-band at the Palomar Transient Factory in California gave a period of 5.0206 with an amplitude of 0.14 magnitude (U=2).

[3] This minor planet was named in honor of American astronomer Albert R. Conrad (born 1953) who worked at various observatories in the United States.

Expert in and developer of adaptive optics, he has studied the natural satellites of the Solar System for their shape and topography, and co-discovered many asteroid moons in the process.