 The was also mentioned in "The Names of the Minor Planets" by Paul Herget in 1955 ().In the Tholen classification as well in the Bus–Binzel SMASS classification, "Tauris" is a common, carbonaceous C-type asteroid, while in both the Tholen- and SMASS-like taxonomy of the Small Solar System Objects Spectroscopic Survey (S3OS2), it is an X-type asteroid.In 1983, a rotational lightcurve of "Tauris", obtained from photometric observations with the ESO 0.5-metre telescope at La Silla, Chile, was by published by Belgian astronomer Henri Debehogne in collaboration with Italian astronomers Giovanni de Sanctis and Vincenzo Zappalà.