[5] It was discovered on 7 November 1978, by American astronomers Eleanor Helin and Schelte Bus at the Palomar Observatory in California,[1] and later named "Educatio", the Latin word for Education.
[1] This minor planet was named "Educatio", the Latin word for Education, one of the most important human endeavors, which is foremost to the industrialization of space.
[1] The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 28 January 1983 (M.P.C.
[8] In the SMASS classification, Educatio is a stony S-type asteroid,[5] which agrees with the overall spectral type for members of the Flora family.
According to the survey carried out by the NEOWISE mission of NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, Educatio measures 6.59 kilometers in diameter and its surface has an albedo of 0.247,[6] while the Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link an albedo of 0.24 – derived from 8 Flora, the parent body of the Flora family – and calculates a diameter of 6.51 kilometers based on an absolute magnitude of 13.1.