It was discovered by Japanese astronomer Tsutomu Seki at Geisei Observatory in Kōchi, Japan, on 21 February 1988.

[6] The presumed S-type asteroid has a rotation period of 11.0 hours and measures approximately 5 kilometers (3.1 miles) in diameter.

[7] In March 2016, a rotation period of Segovia was published using data from the Lowell Photometric Database (LPD).

Using lightcurve inversion and convex shape models, as well as distributed computing power and the help of individual volunteers, a period of 11.03204±0.00001 hours could be obtained for this asteroid from the LPD's sparse-in-time photometry data (U=n.a.).

[4] The Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link assumes an albedo of 0.24 – derived from 8 Flora, the largest member and namesake of this orbital family – and calculates a diameter of 4.9 kilometers with an absolute magnitude of 13.7.