 The was published in the journal "Astronomische Nachrichten" in 1921 (), and was also mentioned in "The Names of the Minor Planets" by Paul Herget in 1955 ().The lunar crater "Burnham" is also named in his honor.In the Tholen classification, "Burnhamia" is closest to a G-type asteroid and somewhat similar to a common stony S-type asteroid, while In ioth the Tholen- and SMASS-like taxonomy of the Small Solar System Objects Spectroscopic Survey (S3OS2), "Burnhamia" is an X-type asteroid.