The data set contains a compilation of the photometric observations (magnitudes) of a variety of comets that allowed to find rotational characteristics of the comet nuclei.

 
Citation Melville, K., Ed., Survey of Comet Lightcurves V1.0. EAR-C-COMPIL-5-LIGHTCURVES-V1.0. NASA Planetary Data System, 2008.
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) 10.26007/tdm9-aq68
Data Set Abstract This is a dataset that compiles the data from various papers, which reported observations of brightness changes in comets that allowed to produce the comet lightcurves. Specifically, the data were based on the references in the paper by Samarasinha et al. (2004), i.e. they are those lightcurves, which were used to find out the rotational properties of the comet nuclei (periods, rotation vector coordinates, spin mode, etc.) reported by Samarasinha et al. (2004).
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    Additional Information
    Mission Information SUPPORT ARCHIVES
    Data Set Information EAR-C-COMPIL-5-LIGHTCURVES-V1.0
    Instrument Host Information PUBLIT
    Instrument Information COMPIL
    Target Information 2060 CHIRON
    4015 WILSON-HARRINGTON
    10P/TEMPEL 2 (1873 N1)
    133P/ELST-PIZARRO (1996 N2)
    143P/KOWAL-MRKOS (1984 H1)
    19P/BORRELLY 1 (1904 Y2)
    22P/KOPFF 1 (1906 Q1)
    28P/NEUJMIN 1 (1913 R2)
    29P/SCHWASSMANN-WACHMANN 1 (1927 V1)
    2P/ENCKE 1 (1818 W1)
    31P/SCHWASSMANN-WACHMANN 2 (1929 B1)
    46P/WIRTANEN 1 (1948 A1)
    48P/JOHNSON (1949 Q1)
    49P/AREND-RIGAUX 1 (1951 C2)
    6P/D'ARREST 1 (1851 M1)
    9P/TEMPEL 1 (1867 G1)
    P/LEVY 1 (1991 L3)