It was discovered on 26 September 1913, by German astronomer Franz Kaiser at the Heidelberg-Königstuhl State Observatory in southwest Germany.
[2] Gedania is a non-family asteroid of the main belt's background population when applying the hierarchical clustering method to its proper orbital elements.
[3] It has also been classified as an hydrated Ch-type and as a Caa type in the Tholen- and SMASS-like taxonomic variant of the Small Solar System Objects Spectroscopic Survey (S3OS2).
[5][11] In February 2006, a rotational lightcurve of Gedania was obtained from photometric observations by collaborating astronomers Roberto Crippa, Federico Manzini (A12), René Roy, Donn Starkey, Raoul Behrend and Laurent Bernasconi.
[7][8][9] The Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link derives an albedo of 0.0754 and a diameter of 58.18 kilometers based on an absolute magnitude of 9.6.