 The "Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link" assumes a standard albedo for carbonaceous asteroids of 0.057 and calculates a diameter of 22.2 kilometers with an absolute magnitude of 12.0.The minor planet was named after the Persian scholar and polymath Al-Biruni (973–1048).Regarded as the founder of Indology and the father of geodesy, he made important contributions to anthropology, mathematics and astronomy.