 It also honors the discoverer's father, Franz Wolf, a physician and amateur astronomer who fostered his son's interest in astronomy by setting up a small observatory in the backyard when Max was sixteen.In the Bus–Binzel SMASS classification, "Franzia" is a common, stony S-type asteroid.Over the last two decades, numerous photometric observations of "Franzia" have been proven challenging to determine a well defined rotation period.