 The asteroid's citation was mentioned in "The Names of the Minor Planets" by Paul Herget in 1955 ().In the Bus–Binzel SMASS classification, "Buda" is an uncommon L-type, while in the Bus–DeMeo taxonomy, it is a D-type asteroid.In March 2009, a rotational lightcurve of "Buda" was obtained from photometric observations by Brian Warner at his Palmer Divide Observatory in Colorado.