It was discovered on 7 October 1986, by American astronomer Edward Bowell at Anderson Mesa Station of the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona.
[8] In September 2012, a rotational lightcurve of Alicemonet was obtained using the SARA telescope at Cerro Tololo, Chile.
[6] The photometric observations gave a well-defined rotation period of 3.8871 hours with a brightness variation of 0.46 magnitude (U=3).
[4][5] The Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link assumes a stony albedo of 0.24 – derived from 8 Flora, the largest member and namesake of this orbital family – and calculates a diameter of 5.9 kilometers with an absolute magnitude of 13.3.
[3] This minor planet was named after American astronomer Alice K. B. Monet (born 1954) at the United States Naval Observatory Flagstaff Station and former chair of the Division on Dynamical Astronomy of the AAS.