 First observed as at Heidelberg Observatory in 1905, "Gehrels" first used observation was made at Goethe Link Observatory in 1958, extending the body's observation arc by 2 years prior to its official discovery at Palomar.This S-type asteroid is characterized as a transitional Sq-type in the SMASS classification.According to the survey carried out by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) with its subsequent NEOWISE mission, "Gehrels" measures between 11.860 and 13.14 kilometers in diameter and its surface has an albedo between 0.2212 and 0.277.