It orbits the Sun in the central main-belt at a distance of 2.1–3.0 AU once every 4 years and 1 month (1,487 days).
[1] A rotational lightcurve was obtained based on photometric observations at the Australian Oakley Southern Sky Observatory in August 2012.
[a] According to the surveys carried out by the Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS) and NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer with its subsequent NEOWISE mission, the asteroid measures between 13.8 and 17.7 kilometers in diameter and its surface has an albedo in the range of 0.10–0.17.
[3] This minor planet was named after Dutch–American astronomer Jan Schilt (1894–1982), one of the founders of the discovering Columbia–Yale Southern Station in the early 1960s, for which he collaborated with local astronomer and with Yale's Dirk Brouwer, after whom the minor planet 1746 Brouwer is named.
At Columbia University, Schilt's research included the dynamics and structure of galaxies, and improvements in measuring the brightness of stars.