 From 2009 to 2014, seven photometric lightcurve analysis rendered a well-defined, concurring rotation period of 4.39 hours "(also see adjunct infobox)".According to the survey carried out by the U.S. Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer with its NEOWISE mission, the asteroid's surface has a relatively high albedo of 0.29, while the "Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link" assumes a more moderate value of 0.24, which is also identical to the albedo of the Flora family's namesake, the asteroid 8 Flora.This minor planet was named after Epyaxa (Ἐπύαξα), wife of King Syennesis and queen of the Kingdom of Cilicia in South Asia Minor in the 5th century BCE.