It was discovered on 28 July 1998, by American astronomer Paul Comba at his Prescott Observatory in Arizona, United States.
[1] Published by the Digitized Sky Survey, the asteroid was first observed at the Siding Spring Observatory, Australia, in August 1982.
The body's rotation period, pole and shape remain unknown.
[1][6] According to the surveys carried out by the Infrared Astronomical Satellite IRAS and the NEOWISE mission of NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, Astrometria measures 17.483 and 22.77 kilometers in diameter and its surface has a low albedo of 0.053 and 0.0311, respectively.
[2] The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 4 August 2001 (M.P.C.