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A comet is a small astronomical body which orbits the sun.
Comet may also refer to:
Arts and entertainment
In print
- 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
- Captain Comet, a different DC Comics superhero
- Comet (Impact Comics), a fictional superhero in the comic-book series Impact Comics
- Comet (Marvel Comics), a Marvel Comics character
- Comet (magazine), a US pulp science fiction magazine
- The Comet (UK comics), a British comic
- The Comet (newspaper), a British newspaper based in Stevenage, Hertfordshire
- The Comet, the first science fiction fanzine
- Comet, a fictional magical object in the Harry Potter series
- "The Comet" (short story), by W.E.B. DuBois
- Comet (book), by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan
Music
- Comet (band), an American band
- Comet (The Bouncing Souls album) (2012)
- Comet (Younha album)
- "Comet" (song), an American children's song
Roller coasters
- Comet (Great Escape), at The Great Escape & Splashwater Kingdom, New York
- Comet (Hersheypark), in Pennsylvania
- Comet (Lincoln Park), in Massachusetts
- Comet (Waldameer), in Pennsylvania
Other
- Comet (film), a 2014 film
- Comet, one of Santa Claus's reindeer
- the title character of Princess Comet, a Japanese TV and manga series
- Comet, a dog in the television series Full House
- Comet (pinball), a pinball machine
- Comet (TV network), digital broadcast television network featuring sci-fi programming.
Military
- Comet tank, a British armoured vehicle
- HMS Comet, several ships of the British Royal Navy
- USS Comet, several United States Navy ships
- SMS Comet, an Imperial German Navy aviso (dispatch boat)
- Comet line, a World War II resistance group which operated in Belgium and France
Places
- Comet, Queensland, a town in Australia
- Comet River, Queensland
- Comet, Arkansas, an unincorporated community
- Comet, Montana, a ghost town
- Comet, North Carolina, an unincorporated community
- Comet Falls, Washington
- Comet Geyser, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
- Comet Mountain, a mountain summit in the Pioneer Mountains of the state of Montana, United States
- Comet Mountain (British Columbia), a mountain at the head of Dean Channel on the Coast of British Columbia, Canada
- Comet Peak, Nevada
- Mount Comet, in the Christmas Mountains of New Brunswick, Canada
- Comet Galaxy, a spiral galaxy
Science
- Comet (fish), a marine fish
- Comet (goldfish)
- Comet moth
- Tillandsia 'Comet', a hybrid cultivar
- Comet, the ancestor of the shorthorn cattle breed
Sports
United States
- Baltimore Comets, a defunct North American Soccer League team (1974–75)
- Clinton Comets, an ice hockey team from 1927 to 1973, at which point it became the Mohawk Valley Comets
- Houston Comets, a defunct basketball team
- Kansas City Comets, an indoor soccer team
- Kenosha Comets, an All-American Girls Professional Baseball League team from 1943 to 1951
- Missouri Comets, a Major Indoor Soccer League team
- Mohawk Valley Comets, a former ice hockey team based in Utica, New York (1973–77)
- Mohawk Valley Comets (ACHL), a former Atlantic Coast Hockey League (1985–87)
- Mohawk Valley Comets (NEHL), a former semi-pro North Eastern Hockey League in the 2003-04 season
- Utica Comets, an American Hockey League team
- Comets, the athletics teams and mascot of the University of Texas at Dallas
- Comets, the athletics teams and mascot of Contra Costa College, California
- Comets, the athletics teams and mascot of Olivet College, Michigan
Elsewhere
- Adelaide Comets FC, an Australian soccer club
- Allgäu Comets, an American Football team from Germany
- Dundee Comets, a Scottish ice hockey team
- Ebun Comets, a Nigerian Premier League basketball team
- IK Comet, a defunct Norwegian ice hockey team
- Workington Comets, a speedway club based in Workington, Cumbria, UK
Technology
- 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
- The "Comet" Swirl chamber, invented by Harry Ricardo in 1931, that made high-speed diesel engines feasible.
Transportation
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
- Air Comet, a defunct Spanish airline
- Cessna Comet, an early aircraft produced by Cessna Aircraft Company
- Speedtwin E2E Comet 1, a UK aerobatic aeroplane
Rail
- Comet (railcar)
- Community of Metros (CoMET), a rapid transit benchmarking organization
- Comet (train), a train of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
- Comet (interurban), an interurban train of the Sacramento Northern Railway
- LDE - Comet, a 19th-century German locomotive
- South Devon Railway Comet class, locomotives operated on the South Devon Railway
Road
- Mercury Comet, an American automobile
- Leyland Comet, a series of buses and trucks formerly produced by Leyloand Motors, now produced by Ashok Leyland
- James Comet, a British motorcycle produced beginning in 1948
- Vincent Comet, a motorcycle produced in England from 1935 to 1955
- Riley Comet, a version of the Riley 4 motorcar
Water
- Comet (1813), an American steamboat
- Comet (clipper), an 1851 California clipper which sailed in the Australia trade and the tea trade
- Comet (steamboat), an American steamboat sunk in Lake Superior
- Comet (sternwheeler), an American steamboat in operation from 1871 to 1900
- PS Comet, a Scottish paddle steamer
- SS Comet, several American and British merchant ships
- Comet (dinghy), a class of centreboard sailing boat
- Comet (racing dinghy)
People
- Catherine Comet, American symphony conductor
- Noah Comet, professor of English literature at the United States Naval Academy
Other uses
- Comet Group, a defunct chain of electrical retailers in the United Kingdom
- Comet (cleanser)
- Surrey Comet, a weekly local newspaper published in London
- The Daily Comet, a newspaper in Thibodaux, Louisiana
- COMET – Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies in Austria
See also
- Comet assay, an experimental technique for measuring DNA damage
- Komet (disambiguation)
- Shavit (Hebrew for "Comet"), a space launch vehicle
- All pages beginning with "Comet"
- All pages with titles containing Comet
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