[7] In November 2010, a fragmentary rotational lightcurve of Battisti was obtained from photometric observations at the Palomar Transient Factory in California.
It gave a rotation period of 5.0228 hours with a low brightness variation of 0.07 magnitude (U=1), typically indicating that the asteroid has a nearly spheroidal shape.
[5] According to the survey carried out by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer with its subsequent NEOWISE mission, Battisti measures 5.7 kilometers in diameter and its surface has an albedo of 0.195,[4] while the Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link assumes a standard albedo of 0.20 for stony asteroids and calculates a diameter of 5.1 kilometers, based on an absolute magnitude of 13.82.
[8] In the 1970s, Battisti lived in a small village near Sormano, location of the discovering observatory.
[2] The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 8 December 1998, three months after his death (M.P.C.