It was discovered on 5 November 1901, by the German astronomers Max Wolf and August Kopff at Heidelberg Observatory in southern Germany.

[3] The S-type asteroid orbits the Sun at a distance of 2.8–4.0 AU once every 6 years and 3 months (2,272 days).

[13] According to the surveys carried out by the Infrared Astronomical Satellite, IRAS, the Japanese Akari satellite, and the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer with its subsequent NEOWISE mission, the body has an albedo between 0.18 and 0.20,[4][5][6] and several independent and concurring photometric light-curve analysis rendered a well-defined rotation period of 8.99 hours.

It is believed the naming might have been influenced by the two letters of the provisional designation "1901 HD", a common practice of the discoverers.

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