It was discovered on 12 February 1986, by staff members at the San Vittore Observatory near Bologna, Italy, and named after physicist Antonino Zichichi.
It orbits the Sun in the inner main-belt at a distance of 1.9–2.7 AU once every 3 years and 7 months (1,307 days).
[1] A minor-planet moon was discovered orbiting at a distance of 16 km in 2006, but not announced until 2011.
[4][5] This minor planet was named after Italian nuclear physicist Antonino Zichichi.
[2] The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 20 May 1989 (M.P.C.