 The body's observation arc begins at Heidelberg with its official discovery observation.This minor planet was named after its discoverer, Karl Reinmuth (1892–1979), a German astronomer at the Heidelberg-Königstuhl State Observatory and a prolific discoverer of minor planets.In total, he discovered 395 asteroids, most of them during the 1920s and 1930s, which was a unique record for many years.