It was discovered on 17 July 1980, by American astronomer Edward Bowell at Lowell's Anderson Mesa Station near Flagstaff, Arizona.
[1] The presumed S-type asteroid has a rotation period of 25.6 hours and was named after astronomer Brian Skiff.
[1] Skiff is an assumed stony S-type asteroid,[4] which is also the overall spectral type of the Flora family.
[13] In August 2014, a rotational lightcurve of Skiff was obtained from photometric observations by Italian astronomers at the Franco Fuligni Observatory near Rome.
[4] This minor planet was named in honor of American astronomer Brian Skiff, discoverer more than 50 asteroids.