The name was chosen because the conference was held aboard the passenger cargo liner Tabora of the Deutsche Ost-Afrika Linie.
[2] The asteroid is orbiting at a distance of 3.55 AU from the Sun with a period of 6.69 years and an eccentricity (ovalness) of 0.12.
The orbital plane for is inclined at an angle of 8.3° to the plane of the ecliptic[1] It is a member of the Cybele group in the outer belt, located close to the 7:4 and 16:9 orbital resonances with Jupiter.
[3] Photometric observations of this asteroid made during 2005 were used to produce a light curve showing a rotation period of 7.982±0.001 h with a brightness variation of 0.28 in magnitude.
[4] This is a low albedo D-type asteroid showing the characteristic featureless, reddish spectrum of that taxonomic class.