 The official was mentioned in "The Names of the Minor Planets" by Paul Herget in 1955 ().In the Tholen- and SMASS-like taxonomy of the Small Solar System Objects Spectroscopic Survey (S3OS2), "Rockefellia" is a Caa and Ch type, respectively, both indicating that it is a hydrated, carbonaceous C-type asteroid.In December 2017, a rotational lightcurve of "Rockefellia" was obtained from photometric observations by Tom Polakis at the Command Module Observatory in Arizona.