Hoffmeister is the namesake and lowest-numbered member of the small and very compact dynamical Hoffmeister family (also see Category:Hoffmeister asteroids), which, based upon its low albedo, was most likely formed from the breakup of a 50-100 kilometer-sized, carbon-rich parent body within the past several hundred million years [REF].
It orbits the Sun in the central main-belt at a distance of 2.7-2.9