 In both the Tholen- and SMASS-like taxonomy of the Small Solar System Objects Spectroscopic Survey (S3OS2), "Herluga" is a common, carbonaceous C-type asteroid.In November 2008, a rotational lightcurve of "Herluga" was obtained from photometric observations by James Brinsfield at the Via Capote Observatory in California.Lightcurve analysis gave a rotation period of hours with a brightness variation of magnitude ().