 In August 2006, a rotational lightcurve of "Athene" was obtained from photometric observations by Roberto Crippa and Federico Manzini at the Sozzago Astronomical Station , Italy, and by Jean-Gabriel Bosch at the Collonges Observatory , France.Lightcurve analysis gave a rotation period of hours with a high brightness variation of magnitude, indicative of a non-spherical, elongated shape ().In September 2010, French amateur astronomer René Roy measured a similar period of hours and an amplitude of ().