Comet (disambiguation)

Contents 1 Animals 2 In fiction and legend 3 Publications 4 Roller coasters 5 In sports 6 In transportation and military and naval craft 7 In music 8 Other

A comet is a small astronomical body which orbits the sun. It may also refer to:

Animals

• Comet (goldfish), a commonly kept form of goldfish
• Several species of hummingbirds:
  • Bronze-tailed Comet (Polyonymus caroli)
  • Grey-bellied Comet (Taphrolesbia griseiventris)
  • Red-tailed Comet (Sappho sparganura)
• Comet moth, an African moth

In fiction and legend

• Comet, a fictional model of broomstick in the magical objects in the Harry Potter series
• Comet, one of Santa Claus's reindeer, as named in "The Night Before Christmas"

In comic-books characters

• Comet (Archie Comics), a fictional superhero in the comic-book series Pep Boys
• Comet (DC Comics), two fictional comic-book characters associated with the Superman family of titles
• Comet (Impact Comics), a fictional superhero in the comic-book series Impact Comics
• Comet (Marvel Comics), a Marvel Comics character

In television

• Comet, a Golden Retriever in the American situation-comedy television series Full House

Publications

• Comet (book), a popular-science book by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan
• The Comet, the first science fiction fanzine
• The Comet (comic magazine), a British publication
• The Comet (short story), a short story found in Darkwater by W.E.B. DuBois
• Hitchin Comet, a newspaper published in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England

Roller coasters

• Comet (Great Escape), a wooden roller coaster located at The Great Escape & Splashwater Kingdom in Queensbury, New York
• Comet (Hersheypark), a wooden roller coaster located at Hersheypark in Hershey, Pennsylvania
• Comet (Lincoln Park), a defunct wooden roller coaster located at Lincoln Park in North Dartmouth, Massachusetts

In sports

Mascots and teams

• Comets, a mascot and name applied to the students or teams at Contra Costa College
• Comets, a mascot and name applied to the students or teams at the University of Texas at Dallas

Teams

• Houston Comets, a defunct professional American basketball team of the Women's National Basketball Association
• IK Comet, a defunct professional Norwegian ice hockey team
• Kansas City Comets, a professional American indoor soccer team of the Major Indoor Soccer League

In transportation and military and naval craft

Aircraft

• De Havilland Comet, the world's first commercial jet airliner to reach production
• De Havilland DH.88 Comet, a British twin-engine racing aeroplane
• Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet, a German rocket-powered fighter aeroplane
• Air Comet, a defunct Spanish airline

Rail

• Comet (railcar), a class of locomotive-hauled railcars
• CoMET, a rapid transit benchmarking organization
• Comet (train), a streamliner train of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
• South Devon Railway Comet class, locomotives operated on the South Devon Railway

Road vehicles

• Comet tank, a British armoured vehicle
• Leyland Comet, an Indian series of buses and trucks produced by Ashok Leyland
• Mercury Comet, an American automobile produced by the Ford Motor Company
• Riley Comet, a version of the Riley 4 motorcar
• A fictional car in the Grand Theft Auto series, based on a Porsche 911.

Watercraft

• Comet (dinghy), a class of centreboard sailing boat
• Comet, an 1851 California clipper which sailed in the Australia trade and the tea trade
• Comet (steamboat), an American steamboat sunk in Lake Superior
• German auxiliary cruiser Komet, a cruiser of the German Kriegsmarine sunk during World War II
• HMS Comet, various ships of the British Royal Navy
• PS Comet, a Scottish paddle steamer
• SS Comet, a name used by various American and British merchant ships
• USNS Comet (T-AK-269), a United States Navy military cargo ship in service fromm 1958 to 1985 and now in reserve
• USS Comet, various United States Navy ships

In music

• Bill Haley & His Comets, an American rock and roll band
• Comet (album), by the Korean singer Younha
• "Comet" (song), an American children's song

Other

• Comet Galaxy, a spiral galaxy
• Comet (cleanser), a powdered cleaning product sold in North America
• Comet (programming), a web application model using server-push communication
• Comet (programming language), programming languages to solve combinatorial optimization problems
• Comet (pyrotechnics), a firework component
• Comet assay, an experimental technique for measuring DNA damage
• Comet Group, a chain of electronic-goods shops in the United Kingdom
• Comet, Queensland, a town in Australia
• Comet, the ancestor of the shorthorn cattle breed
• Comet line, a World War II resistance group which operated in Belgium and France
• Shavit, or Hebrew for comet, a space launch vehicle

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