in 2004, kochetova estimated gyptis to have a mass of 1.25 kg with a high density of 5.53 g/cm³. the adaptive optics instrument at the w. m. keck observatory showed an object with a diameter of 129 km, which is much smaller than the estimate of 160 km from the iras observatory measurements, indicating an irregular shape. the size ratio between the major and minor axes is estimated at 1.40. observations of an occultation on october 14, 2007, produced six chords indicating a cross-section ellipsoid of 179×150 km.