[3] Giordano is a non-family asteroid of the main belt's background population when applying the hierarchical clustering method to its proper orbital elements.
[3] In September 2010, a rotational lightcurve of Giordano was obtained from photometric observations in the R-band by astronomers at the Palomar Transient Factory in California.
[10] This minor planet was named after an Italian Dominican friar Giordano Bruno (1548–1600), a philosopher, mathematician, poet, and cosmological theorist who spent many years in London, where several of his papers were published.
[2] Bruno was convinced that the Copernican heliocentric rather than the Geocentric model was correct, and proposed that other worlds, on which people could live, might exist around other stars.
[2][11] Another asteroid, 13223 Cenaceneri, was named after Bruno's work "The Dinner of the Ashes" (Italian: La Cena delle Ceneri), where he discusses the possibility of an infinite number of worlds in the universe.