It was discovered on 23 September 1913, by American astronomer Joel Hastings Metcalf at his observatory (799) in Winchester, Massachusetts.

[1] This minor planet was named after American astronomers William Cranch Bond (1789–1859) and his son George Phillips Bond (1825–1865), both directors of the Harvard College Observatory in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Lightcurve analysis gave a well defined rotation period of 8.3402±0.0007 hours with a brightness variation of 0.27±0.02 magnitude (U=3) and supersedes a previous observation by Szabó from 2016, who determined a period of at least 60 hours and a low amplitude (U=2).

[10][11] According to the surveys carried out by the Japanese Akari satellite and the NEOWISE mission of NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), Bondia measures 43.039±0.396 and 46.91±0.66 kilometers in diameter and its surface has an albedo between 0.095±0.022 and 0.084, respectively.

[7][8][9] The Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link derives an albedo of 0.0857 and a diameter of 41.40 kilometers based on an absolute magnitude of 10.2.