It was discovered by American amateur astronomer Dennis di Cicco at the U.S Sudbury Observatory (817), Massachusetts, on 24 October 1995.
[1] The first precovery was obtained at Kleť Observatory in 1979, extending the asteroid's observation arc by 16 years prior to its discovery.
[2] AAVSO was founded in 1911 by amateur astronomer William Tyler Olcott (1873–1936), based on a suggestion by Edward Charles Pickering's (1846–1919), after whom the minor planet 784 Pickeringia is named.
Lightcurve analysis gave a rotation period of 3.8368 hours with a brightness variation of 0.43 in magnitude (U=2).
[6] According to the NEOWISE mission of NASA's space-based Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, AAVSO measures 5.8 kilometers in diameter and its surface has an albedo of 0.28,[4][5] while the Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link assumes a standard albedo for stony asteroids of 0.20 and calculates a diameter of 5.3 kilometers.