[10] The stony S-type asteroid has a rotation period of 3.0 hours and measures approximately 13 kilometers (8.1 miles) in diameter.

[1] The first precovery was taken at Lowell Observatory in 1931, extending the asteroid's observation arc by 46 years prior to its discovery.

[10] This minor planet was named after the Armenian-Russian painter of seascapes, Ivan Aivazovsky (1817–1900), who lived and worked in the Crimean city of Feodosia.

[11]: 23 A rotational lightcurve of Aivazovskij was obtained from photometric observations made in March 2008, at the Universidad de Monterry Observatory, Mexico.

[9][14] Based on the survey carried out by the NEOWISE mission of NASA's space-based Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, the asteroid measure 12.1 kilometers in diameter and its surface has a high albedo of 0.33,[5][6] while the Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link assumes a standard albedo for stony asteroids of 0.20, and calculates a diameter 14.9 kilometers with an absolute magnitude of 11.5.