[11] Barney has been characterized as a stony S-type asteroid in the SDSS taxonomy of the Moving Object Catalog (MOC) and by the survey conducted by Pan-STARRS.
[4][8][9] In August 2010, a rotational lightcurve of Barney was obtained from photometric observations in the R-band by astronomers at the Palomar Transient Factory in California.
Lightcurve analysis gave a rotation period of 2.661 hours with a brightness amplitude of 0.20 magnitude (U=2).
[4] This minor planet was named in memory of American astronomer Ida Barney (1886–1982), who worked at the Yale University Observatory during 1924–1959.
She supervised and significantly contributed to the Yale Observatory Zone Catalog for which the positions and proper motions of a large number stars were measured.