It was discovered by Austrian astronomer Johann Palisa at the Vienna Observatory on 10 October 1920.
[2] Murray is a non-family asteroid of the main belt's background population when applying the hierarchical clustering method to its proper orbital elements.
[1] This minor planet was named after Gilbert Murray (1866–1957), British classical scholar and diplomat who helped post-war Austria in 1920 through the League of Nations.
[3][5] In December 2018, a rotational lightcurve of Murray was obtained from photometric observations by the Spanish astronomer group OBAS.
Lightcurve analysis gave a notably short rotation period of 3.390±0.004 hours with a brightness amplitude of 0.10±0.03 magnitude (U=2).