It was discovered on 17 October 1936, by French astronomer Marguerite Laugier at the Nice Observatory in southwestern France.
[2] Based on the Moving Object Catalog (MOC) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, the body has a spectral type of a very dark D-type asteroid,[5] typically found in the outer main-belt and numerous among the Jupiter trojans.
[4] This minor planet was named after the acronym for American Standard Code for Information Interchange, ASCII, a computer character code and the name of a major Japanese magazine on microcomputers.
[1] The name was proposed by Syuichi Nakano, who identified this asteroid during his stay at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory; a stay which was partially funded by articles he wrote for the principal Japanese ASCII magazine.
The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 2 April 1988 (M.P.C.