It was discovered on 11 July 1988, by American astronomers Eleanor Helin, Celina Mikolajczak and Robert Coker at the Palomar Observatory in California.
The bimodal lightcurve gave a rotation period of 11.513 hours with a very low brightness variation of 0.07 in magnitude (U=2).
[4][5] The Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link assumes an albedo of 0.21, derived from the family's largest member and namesake, 15 Eunomia, and calculates a diameter of 12.1 kilometers with an absolute magnitude of 11.9.
At the Goddard Space Flight Center, he designed low-cost spacecraft and missions to explore the Solar System.
[2] Farquhar was known for his international collaborations and for designing missions to comets and minor planets using inventive alternative trajectories.