It was discovered by staff members at the Felix Aguilar Observatory at El Leoncito Complex in Argentina, on 18 May 1974.
[2] Sérsic is a member of the Flora family, one of the largest groups of stony asteroids in the main-belt.
It orbits the Sun in the inner main-belt at a distance of 2.0–2.5 AU once every 3 years and 4 months (1,228 days).
[1] The Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link assumes an albedo of 0.24 – derived from 8 Flora, the largest member and namesake of this orbital family – and calculates a diameter of 6.21 kilometers with an absolute magnitude of 13.2.
[2] The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 20 February 1989 (M.P.C.