 The was also mentioned in "The Names of the Minor Planets" by Paul Herget in 1955 ().In both the Tholen- and SMASS-like taxonomy of the Small Solar System Objects Spectroscopic Survey (S3OS2), "Altona" is an X-type asteroid.In September 2017, a rotational lightcurve of "Altona" was obtained from photometric observations by Brian Warner at his Palmer Divide Station of the Center for Solar System Studies in California.