 The asteroid orbits the Sun at a distance of 2.9–3.6 AU about once every 6 years (2,117 days) and rotates around its axis in 23 hours.Its low geometric albedo of 0.047 has been measured by the Infrared Astronomical Satellite, IRAS.The asteroid was named after Bouzaréah, location of the discovering observatory and suburb of the Algerian capital, Algiers.