It was discovered on 26 May 1984 by American astronomer couple Carolyn and Eugene Shoemaker at Palomar Observatory in California, United States.
[5] Several rotational lightcurve have been obtained since November 1990, when the first photometric observations of Paris – made by Italian astronomer Stefano Mottola, using the ESO 1-metre telescope at La Silla Observatory in Chile – gave a rotation period of 7.082±0.004 hours with a brightness variation of 0.08±0.01 magnitude.
In July 1998, Mottola measured an identical period with an amplitude of 0.10 at Calar Alto Observatory in Spain (U=2+/2+).
[10][11][12] The Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link derives an albedo of 0.0625 and adopts a diameter of 116.26 kilometers from IRAS, based on an absolute magnitude of 8.3.
This minor planet was named from Greek mythology, after prince Paris, one of the many sons of King Priam of Troy.