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724 Hapag is a minor planet orbiting the Sun in the asteroid belt that was found by Austrian astronomer Johann Palisa in 1911. It was assigned a provisional name of 1911 NC then was lost until it was rediscovered in 1988 as 1988 VG2 by T. Hioki and N. Kawasato at Okutama Japan.Photometric observations of this asteroid at the Organ Mesa Observatory in Las Cruces New Mexico in 2011 gave a light curve with a period of 3.1305 ± 0.0001 hours and a brightness variation of 0.11 ± 0.01 in magnitude.