 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 the Bus–Binzel SMASS classification, "Otila" is an Sa-subtype that transitions from a common, stony S-type to an uncommon A-type asteroid, while in the Bus-DeMeo-taxonomy, it is an Sw-type asteroid, where the "w" notation is used for a objects with a high spectral slope (greater than 0.25).In April 2007, a rotational lightcurve of "Otila" was obtained from photometric observations by Julian Oey.