[3] However, it is a non-family asteroid of the main belt's background population when applying the hierarchical clustering method to its proper orbital elements.
[4][5] It orbits the Sun in the inner main-belt at a distance of 1.9–2.5 AU once every 3 years and 3 months (1,193 days).
[11] Vavilov is an assumed stony S-type asteroid,[3] which is also the overall spectral type for members of the Flora family.
In February 2006, a rotational lightcurve of Vavilov was obtained from photometric observations by Petr Pravec at Ondřejov Observatory in the Czech Republic.
Lightcurve analysis gave a rotation period of 800 hours with a brightness amplitude of at least 0.4 magnitude (U=2)[a] With a period above 500 hours, Vavilov is one of only a few dozen slow rotators with such an extreme spin rate currently known to exists.