[1] Phystech is a non-family asteroid of the main belt's background population when applying the hierarchical clustering method to its proper orbital elements.
[1] Phystech is an assumed stony S-type asteroid, based on its family classification.
[5] In March and April 2008, two rotational lightcurves of Phystech were obtained from photometric observations by American astronomers at LPL and Calvin College (H62).
Lightcurve analysis gave a well-defined rotation period of 4.66883 and 4.66904 hours with a brightness amplitude of 0.53 and 0.41 magnitude, respectively (U=3/3).
[5] This minor planet was named after the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (informally: "PhysTech"; Физтех) on the occasion of its 50th anniversary in 1996, based on a proposal by the Institute of Theoretical Astronomy (ITA) in Saint Petersburg, Russia.