"Baumeia" is a common, stony S-type asteroid in both the SMASS-I taxonomy by Xu (1995), as well as in the taxonomic classification based on MOVIS near-infrared colors from the catalog of the VISTA Hemisphere Survey conducted with the VISTA telescope at Paranal Observatory in Chile.In January 2019, a rotational lightcurve of "Baumeia" was obtained from photometric observations by European astronomers Bruno Christmann, Raoul Behrend, Anaël Wünsche, Marc Bretton, Rui Goncalves, Josep Bosch.