[1] Beckman is a member of the Mars-crossing asteroids, a dynamically unstable group between the main belt and the near-Earth populations, crossing the orbit of Mars at 1.66 AU.
[1] This minor planet was named after Arnold Orville Beckman (1900–2004), an American chemist and inventor of the first (potentiometric) pH meter.
[2][8] A rotational lightcurve of Beckman was obtained from photometric observations by Polish astronomer Wiesław Wiśniewski during 1986–1987.
Lightcurve analysis gave a well-defined rotation period of 3.124 hours with a brightness amplitude of 0.16 magnitude (U=3).
[7] Observations by Daniel Klinglesmith at Etscorn Campus Observatory (719) in November 2013, gave a period of 3.130 hours and an amplitude of 0.27 magnitude (U=3-).