[2][3] Wasserburg is a bright member of the Hungaria family, which form the innermost dense concentration of asteroids in the Solar System.

[2] Wasserburg also carried out isotopic analyses of meteorites, developed a time scale for the formation and evolution of the Solar System, and contributed to the theory of nucleosynthesis.

[15] According to preliminary results from the survey carried out by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) with its subsequent NEOWISE mission, Wasserburg measures 1.777 kilometers in diameter and its surface has an outstandingly high albedo of 1.000,[7][8] while the Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link assumes it to be an E-type asteroid, with albedo of 0.40 – derived from 434 Hungaria the family's namesake and most prominent member – and calculates a larger diameter of 3.82 kilometers with an absolute magnitude of 13.7.

[5][9][10][11][a][b][c] Due to the changing amplitude, Wasserburg is likely one of the more elongatedly shaped primary asteroids of all known smaller binaries with an diameter of less than 10 kilometers.

[5] After being already recognized as an asteroid pair, American astronomer Brian Warner observed faint mutual eclipsing and occultation events in April 2013.