It was discovered on 22 January 1908, by German astronomer August Kopff at the Heidelberg Observatory.
[1] It is the principal body and namesake of the small Beagle cluster located within the Themis family.
[4] This minor planet was named after HMS Beagle, with which naturalist Charles Darwin sailed around the world from 1831 to 1836.
Lightcurve analysis gave a rotation period of 7.035±0.003 hours with a very high brightness amplitude of 1.2 magnitude, indicative of a non-spherical, elongated shape (U=3).
[6] The Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link adopts the SIMPS albedo of 0.0625 and a diameter of 53.17 kilometers based on an absolute magnitude of 10.0.