It was discovered on 16 November 1912, by American astronomer Joel Hastings Metcalf at the Winchester Observatory (799).
[1] This minor planet was named in honor of the prestigious Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.
[11] Lightcurve analysis gave a well-defined rotation period of 6.7 hours with a brightness variation of 0.32 magnitude (U=3).
[10] According to the surveys carried out by the Infrared Astronomical Satellite IRAS, the NEOWISE mission of NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), and the Japanese Akari satellite, Harvard measures (16.66±0.6), (17.111±0.125) and (17.92±0.27) kilometers in diameter and its surface has an albedo of (0.1406±0.011), (0.133±0.022) and (0.122±0.004), respectively.
[7][8][9] The Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link derives an albedo of 0.2051 and a diameter of 16.89 kilometers based on an absolute magnitude of 11.2.