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2212 Hephaistos
2212
Hephaistos
is an
Apollo asteroid
and a
NEO
discovered
on
27
September 1978
by L. I.
Chernykh
at the
Crimean Astrophysical Observatory
. It is named after the
Greek god
Hephaestus
. It is the largest member of the Hephaistos
asteroid group
.