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Discovery of superslow rotating asteroids with ATLAS and ZTF photometry

Discovery of superslow rotating asteroids with ATLAS and ZTF photometry

We present here the discovery of a new class of super-slow rotating asteroids (P>1000 hours) in data extracted from the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) and Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) all-sky surveys. Of the 39 rotation periods we report here, 32 have periods longer than any previously reported unambiguous …