 It was discovered on 14 September 1963, by the Indiana Asteroid Program at Goethe Link Observatory near Brooklyn, Indiana, United States, and named after French mathematician Urbain Le Verrier.The asteroid has a rotation period of 6.8 hours and measures approximately in diameter

"Leverrier" is an S-type asteroid and member of the Flora family, one of the largest families of stony asteroids.It orbits the Sun in the inner main-belt at a distance of 1.8–2.7 AU once every 3 years and 3 months (1,199 days).