 Lutz Schmadel, the author of the "Dictionary of Minor Planet Names" learned about the origin of the minor planet's name from private communications with astronomer Nikolai Chernykh (1931–2004), who worked as an astrometricist and Solar System dynamicist at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory.In the Tholen-like taxonomy of the Small Solar System Objects Spectroscopic Survey (S3OS2), "Inna" is a common carbonaceous C-type asteroid, while in the survey's SMASS-like taxonomic variant, it is a Cb-subtype, transitioning to the somewhat brighter B-type asteroids.The Themis family has a "CB" overall spectral type.