 The "Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link" derives a high albedo of 0.2952 and a diameter of 18.56 kilometers based on an absolute magnitude of 10.6.This minor planet was named after the genus "Aethusa" in the carrot family, of which the plant "Aethusa cynapium" – commonly known as fool's parsley, fool's cicely, or poison parsley – is the only member.The official naming citation was mentioned in "The Names of the Minor Planets" by Paul Herget in 1955 ().