 These names are not related to the discoverer's contemporaries.Lutz Schmadel, the author of the "Dictionary of Minor Planet Names" learned about Reinmuth's source of inspiration from private communications with Dutch astronomer Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld, who worked as a young astronomer at Heidelberg.In both the Tholen- and SMASS-like taxonomy of the Small Solar System Objects Spectroscopic Survey (S3OS2), "Kunigunde" is a B-type asteroid, a somewhat brighter spectral type than the common C-type typical for Themistian asteroids.