It was discovered on 1 March 1995, by Czech astronomer Miloš Tichý at Kleť Observatory in South Bohemia.
[2] Závist orbits the Sun in the central main-belt at a distance of 2.2–3.0 AU once every 4 years and 2 months (1,520 days).
[1] The first precovery was taken at Palomar Observatory in 1980, extending the asteroid's observation arc by 15 years prior to its discovery.
[7] A rotational lightcurve was obtained from photometric observations made at the U.S. Palomar Transient Factory in September 2010.
[5] According to the survey carried out by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer with its subsequent NEOWISE mission, Závist measures 5.05 kilometers in diameter and its surface has an exceptionally high albedo of 0.363±0.094.