[2] Franklina 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 British amateur astronomer and stellar cartographer John Franklin Adams (1843–1912), who created one of the earliest detailed, photographic atlases of the complete night sky (the Franklin-Adams plates or charts).

[11] In the Tholen- and SMASS-like taxonomy of the Small Solar System Objects Spectroscopic Survey (S3OS2), Franklina is an uncommon A-type and Ld-type asteroid, respectively.

[5][10] In October 2004, a rotational lightcurve of Franklina was obtained from photometric observations by American Brian Warner at his Palmer Divide Observatory (716) in Colorado .

[13] Based on its exceptionally low brightness variation, Franklina might be a rather spherical body with little to no albedo features on its surface, or, it might be due to a yet undetermined long period.