[1][5] Benita is a non-family asteroid that belongs to the background population of the main belt.
[3] It orbits the Sun in the outer region of the asteroid belt, at a distance of 3.0–3.3 AU.
It completes one orbit around the Sun every 5 years and 9 months (2,087 days) with a semi-major axis of approximately 3.20 AU.
[1] The body's observation arc begins with a precovery taken at Lincoln Laboratory's ETS, New Mexico, on 30 October 1997.
[6] The discoverer named this minor planet after his wife, Benita Segal (born 1964), a major supporter of the observatory.