 Photometric observations by astronomer Brian D. Warner at the Palmer Divide Observatory in Colorado () during winter 2007–2008 were used to build a lightcurve, which gave a rotation period of hours and a brightness variation of in magnitude ().The results concur with observations made by French amateur astronomers Stéphane Charbonnel and Laurent Bernasconi, and with analysed data from the "Palomar Transient Factory Survey" in 2004 and 2015, respectively ().This minor planet was named after the Ukrainian town Genichesk (Henichesk), the discoverer's birthplace in the former Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 April 1980 ().