Schiaparelli named it Hesperia in honour of Italy (the word is a Greek term for the peninsula).

[8] The asteroid is orbiting the Sun with a period of 5.14 years, a semimajor axis of 2.980 AU, and eccentricity of 0.165.

[5] Radar observations combined with lightcurve-based shape models, lead to a diameter estimate of 110 ± 15 km (68 ± 9.3 mi).

[5] In the near infrared, a weak absorption feature near a wavelength of 0.9 μm can be attributed to orthopyroxenes on the surface.

[9] A meteorite analogue of the reflectance spectra from 69 Hesperia is the Hoba ataxite.