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===Naming=== There is no official name for the class commonly referred as Atira asteroids. The term "Apohele asteroids" was proposed by the discoverers of {{mpl|1998 DK|36}},<ref name="Tholen-1998" /> after the [[Hawaiian language|Hawaiian]] word for [[orbit]], from ''apo'' {{IPA|haw|ΛΙpo|}} 'circle' and ''hele'' {{IPA|haw|ΛhΙlΙ|}} 'to go'.<ref>[https://wehewehe.org/gsdl2.85/cgi-bin/hdict?a=d&d=D1434&l=en (Ulukau Hawaiian Electronic Library)]</ref> This was suggested partly because of its similarity to the words ''aphelion (apoapsis)'' and ''helios''.{{efn|name=Tholen-CCC}} Other authors adopted the designation "Inner Earth Objects" (IEOs).<ref name="Michel-2000" /> Following the general practice to name a new class of asteroids for the first recognized member of that class, which in this case was [[163693 Atira]], the designation of "Atira asteroids" was largely adopted by the scientific community, including by [[NASA]].<ref name="Ribeiro">{{cite journal |last1=Ribeiro |first1=Anderson O. |display-authors=et al|title=Dynamical study of the Atira group of asteroids |journal=[[Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society]] |date=1 June 2016 |volume=458 |issue=4 |pages=4471β4476 |doi=10.1093/mnras/stw642|doi-access=free }}</ref><ref name="NEO-groups" />
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