[3] Based on recent HCM-analyses, Auricula is a non-family asteroid that belongs to the main belt's background population.

[3] It honors German astronomer and diligent orbit computer Gustav Stracke (1887–1943), who had asked that no asteroid be named after him.

[17] Due to his many discoveries, Karl Reinmuth submitted a large list of 66 newly named asteroids in the early 1930s.

Lightcurve analysis gave a rotation period of 3.9816±0.0006 hours with a brightness amplitude of 0.75 magnitude (U=3), indicative of a non-spherical, elongated shape.

[7][8][10][9][11][12] The Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link derives an albedo of 0.0465 and a diameter of 22.37 kilometers based on an absolute magnitude of 12.2.