 According to the survey carried out by the NEOWISE mission of NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, "GAISH" measures 15.256 kilometers in diameter and its surface has an albedo of 0.076.The "Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link" assumes a standard albedo for a carbonaceous asteroid of 0.057 and calculates a diameter of 11.42 kilometers based on an absolute magnitude of 13.44.This minor planet was named after the Sternberg Astronomical Institute (GAISh, ГАИШ), a division of Moscow State University.