 The asteroid's observation arc begins with its first observation as at Heidelberg Observatory on 26 October 1905, almost 11 years prior to its official discovery observation.This minor planet was named after Sherburne Wesley Burnham (1838–1921), American astronomer who discovered many visual binary stars and is known for his "Burnham Double Star Catalogue" (BDS), a catalogue of double stars seen in the Northern Hemisphere, which was published in two parts by the Carnegie Institution of Washington in 1906.Burnham observed from the Chicago (1877), Lick (1888) and Yerkes (1897) observatories.