[2] In December 2015, photometric observations of Vertinskij at the Oakley Southern Sky Observatory gave no conclusive results due to excessive noise and/or insufficient data.
[7] As of 2018, the body's rotation period, pole and shape remain unknown.
[4] According to the survey carried out by the NEOWISE mission of NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, Vertinskij measures between 6.243 and 6.467 kilometers in diameter and its surface has an albedo between 0.2229 and 0.238,[5][6] while the Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link assumes an albedo of 0.24 – derived from 8 Flora, the parent body of the Flora family – and calculates a diameter of 6.51 kilometers based on an absolute magnitude of 13.1.
[4] This minor planet was named after Russian artist and poet Alexander Vertinsky (1889–1957).
The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 12 September 1992 (M.P.C.