 The "Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link" derives an albedo of 0.0496 and a diameter of 41.28 kilometers based on an absolute magnitude of 10.8.This minor planet was named after George Ellery Hale (1868–1938), a prolific American astronomer and pioneer of a new generation of large aperture telescopes, namely the 60-inch Hale and the 100-inch Hooker telescope at Mount Wilson Observatory, as well as the 200-inch Hale telescope at Palomar Observatory.He founded the discovering Yerkes and Mount Wilson observatories and was their first director.