It was discovered on 1 March 1913, by German astronomer Franz Kaiser at the Heidelberg-Königstuhl State Observatory in Germany.
[3] Mauritia is a non-family asteroid of the main belt's background population when applying the hierarchical clustering method to its proper orbital elements.
In March 2013, a first rotational lightcurve of Mauritia was obtained from photometric observations over six nights by Frederick Pilcher at the Organ Mesa Observatory (G50) in New Mexico, United States.
Lightcurve analysis gave a well-defined rotation period of 9.945±0.001 hours with a brightness variation of 0.12±0.02 magnitude (U=3).
[10][a] According to the surveys carried out by the Japanese Akari satellite and the NEOWISE mission of NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), Mauritia measures (23.23±1.38) and (24.711±0.288) kilometers in diameter and its surface has an albedo of (0.249±0.032) and (0.200±0.023), respectively.