It is located in the outer regions of the asteroid belt and was discovered on 7 September 1921, by astronomer Karl Reinmuth at the Heidelberg-Königstuhl State Observatory in Germany and given the provisional designations A921 RF and 1921 JX.
[3] Camelia is a non-family asteroid of the main belt's background population when applying the hierarchical clustering method to its proper orbital elements.
[6][11] In August 2000, a rotational lightcurve of Camelia was obtained from photometric observations by Brian Warner at the Palmer Divide Observatory (716) in Colorado.
The originally published lightcurve analysis gave a wrong rotation period of 5.391±0.02 hours with a brightness variation of 0.32±0.02 magnitude (U=0).
[12] In July 2010, and with the availability of improved analysis tools and techniques along with the experience gained over more than a decade, Warner reviewed and recalibrated the original data set and determined a period of at least 150±10 hours with an amplitude of more than 0.30 (U=1+).