[2][6] Aitken 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 1.9–2.8 AU once every 3 years and 6 months (1,279 days).
[3] In November 2010, rotational lightcurve of Aitken was obtained from photometric observations made at the Palomar Transient Factory in California.
Lightcurve analysis gave a rotation period of 6.3965 hours with a brightness amplitude of 0.38 magnitude (U=2).
[3] This minor planet was named for of American astronomer Robert Grant Aitken (1864–1951), who was the 4th director of the Lick Observatory from 1930 to 1935, successor of director William Campbell, after whom the minor planet 2751 Campbell was named.