3873 Roddy (1984 WB) is a Mars-crossing asteroid discovered on November 21 1984 by C. Shoemaker at Palomar. It is a member of the Hungaria family and is a probable binary system. Photometric observations of the asteroid during 2005 at the Palmer Divide Observatory in Colorado Springs Colorado were used to generate a light curve with a period of 2.4782 ± 0.0002 hours and a variation in brightness of 0.09 ± 0.02 magnitude.
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