It was discovered on 1 February 2003, by American astronomer James Whitney Young at the Table Mountain Observatory near Wrightwood, California.
[1] This minor planet was named for the Table Mountain Observatory, the discoverer's workplace, currently a NASA facility operated by the California Institute of Technology's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which began operation as a Smithsonian Institution site in 1924 to study the solar constant.
In the late 1950s, the site was used to test the first solar panels and is now dedicated to optical astronomy and to study Earth's atmosphere.
[2] The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 28 October 2004 (M.P.C.
[9] In the SDSS-based taxonomy, Table Mountain has been characterized as both S-type and Q-type asteroid.