It was the first asteroid discovery by C. H. F. Peters, on May 29, 1861,[7] from Hamilton College, New York State.

Safford named it after Feronia, a Roman fertility goddess.

[8] This asteroid is orbiting the Sun with a period of 3.41 years, having a semimajor axis of 2.266 AU and an eccentricity of 0.121.

This is a spectral type TDG asteroid with a cross-section size of 84 km.

The asteroid has an estimated rotation period of 8.09 h. Hanuš et al. (2013) gives two possible solutions for the pole in ecliptic coordinates: (λ1, β1) = (287°, −39°) or (λ1, β1) = (102°, −55°).