[2] Hooveria is a non-family asteroid of the main belt's background population when applying the hierarchical clustering method to its proper orbital elements.
[1] This minor planet was named by the Academic Senate of the Vienna University in honor of then-Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover (1874–1964), in recognition of his help to Austria after World War I.
In the Tholen classification, Hooveria is classified as a CB-asteroid, closest to a carbonaceous C-type and somewhat similar to a brighter B-type asteroid.
Lightcurve analysis gave a well-defined rotation period of 78.44±0.01 hours with a brightness variation of 0.24±0.02 magnitude (U=3).
[6][7] The Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link assumes an albedo of 0.20 and calculates a diameter of 29.72 km based on an absolute magnitude of 10.00.