[10] The asteroid was named after American mathematician Morton Lowengrub, dean at Indiana University and one of the fathers of the WIYN Observatory.
[3] A rotational lightcurve of Lowengrub was reported in 1996 and obtained from photometric observations by group of French astronomers in the early 1990s.
Lightcurve analysis gave a well-defined rotation period of 9.764 hours with a brightness amplitude of 0.40 magnitude (U=3).
[3] This minor planet was named after American mathematician Morton Lowengrub, dean, professor and administrator at Indiana University.
Lowengrub was instrumental for the planning and construction of the WIYN and was a charter member of the WIYN Board of Governors [2] Lowengrub has authored several books on mathematics including "Crack problems in the classical theory of elasticity" (1969) together with Scottish mathematician Ian Sneddon.