Comet (disambiguation)
A comet is a small astronomical body which orbits the sun.
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Comet may also refer to:
Arts and entertainment
Music
- Comet (band), an American band
- Comet (The Bouncing Souls album) (2012)
- Comet (Younha album)
- "Comet" (song), an American children's song
Print
- Comet (Archie Comics), a fictional superhero
- Comet (Impact Comics), a fictional superhero
- Comet (DC Comics), either of two fictional comic book characters
- Captain Comet, a DC Comics superhero
- Comet (Marvel Comics), a fictional character
- Comet (magazine), a US pulp science fiction magazine
- The Comet (UK comics)
- The Comet (newspaper), based in Stevenage, Hertfordshire
- The Comet, a science fiction fanzine
- Comet, a fictional magical broomstick in the Harry Potter series
- "The Comet" (short story), by W.E.B. DuBois
- Comet (book), by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan
Roller coasters
- Comet (Great Escape), in New York
- Comet (Hersheypark), in Pennsylvania
- Comet (Lincoln Park), in Massachusetts
- Comet (Waldameer), in Pennsylvania
Other
- Comet (film) (2014)
- Comet (pinball), a pinball machine
- Comet (TV network)
- Princess Comet, a Japanese TV and manga series
- Comet, a dog in the television series Full House
- Comet, one of Santa Claus's reindeer
Military
- Comet (tank), a British armoured vehicle
- HMS Comet, any of several ships of the British Royal Navy
- USS Comet, any of several United States Navy ships
- SMS Comet, an Imperial German Navy aviso (dispatch boat)
- Comet line, a World War II resistance group
People
- Catherine Comet (born 1944), American symphony conductor
- Noah Comet, professor of English literature at the United States Naval Academy
- Gale Sayers (born 1943), NFL Hall of Famer known as "The Kansas Comet"
Places
Populated Places
- Comet, Queensland, Australia
- Comet, Arkansas, United States
- Comet, Missouri, United States
- Comet, Montana, United States
- Comet, North Carolina, United States
- Comet, Jackson County, Ohio, United States
- Comet, Summit County, Ohio, United States
Geographic Locations
- Comet River, Queensland, Australia
- Comet Mountain (British Columbia), Canada
- Mount Comet, in the Christmas Mountains of New Brunswick, Canada
- Comet Mountain, Montana, United States
- Comet Peak, Nevada, United States
- Comet Falls, Washington, United States
- Comet Geyser, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, United States
- Comet Galaxy, a spiral galaxy 3.2 billion light years from Earth
Science
- Comet (fish), a marine fish
- Comet (goldfish)
- Comet moth
- Tillandsia 'Comet', a hybrid cultivar
- Comet, the ancestor of the shorthorn cattle breed
- Comet (experiment), searching for coherent neutrino-less conversion of a muon to an electron
- Bronze-tailed comet, Polyonymus caroli, a species of hummingbird
- Red-tailed comet. Sappho sparganurus, another species of hummingbird
- Grey-bellied comet, Taphrolesbia griseiventris, another species of hummingbird
- Manx Comet, a type of tailless comet
Sports
United States
- Baltimore Comets, a defunct North American Soccer League team (1974–75)
- Clinton Comets, an ice hockey team from 1927 to 1973
- Houston Comets, a defunct basketball team
- Kansas City Comets (disambiguation), any of several indoor soccer teams
- 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 in California
- Comets, the athletics teams and mascot of Olivet College in Michigan
- Comets, the athletics teams and mascot of Palomar College in California
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 Cumbria, UK
Technology
- Comet (programming), a web application model using server-push communication
- Comet (programming language), used to solve combinatorial optimization problems
- Comet (pyrotechnics), a firework component
- The "Comet" swirl chamber, used in diesel engines
Transportation
Aircraft
- De Havilland Comet, a jet airliner
- De Havilland DH.88 Comet, a British2 racing aeroplane
- Air Comet, a defunct Spanish airline
- Cessna Comet, an early aircraft
- Speedtwin E2E Comet 1, a UK aerobatic aeroplane
Rail
- Comet (railcar)
- Community of Metros (CoMET), a rapid transit benchmarking organization
- Comet (train), of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
- Comet (interurban), a train of the Sacramento Northern Railway
- LDE - Comet, a 19th-century German locomotive
- South Devon Railway Comet class, a type of locomotive
Road
- Mercury Comet, an American automobile
- Leyland Comet, a series of buses and trucks
- 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
Bus
- The Comet (transit), a transit operator in Columbia, South Carolina
Water
- Comet (1813 steamboat)
- Comet (clipper), an 1851 California clipper which sailed in the Australia trade and the tea trade
- Comet (steamboat), sunk in Lake Superior, USA
- Comet (sternwheeler), in operation from 1871 to 1900
- PS Comet, a Scottish paddle steamer, operating the first European steamship service (1812)
- SS Comet, any of several American and British merchant ships
- Comet (dinghy), a class of centreboard sailing boat
- Comet (racing dinghy)
Other uses
- Comet Group, a defunct UK retail chain
- Comet (cleanser)
- The Comet, a weekly local newspaper published in Stevenage, Hertfordshire
- 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
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See also
- Comet assay, an experimental technique for measuring DNA damage
- Komet (disambiguation)
- Shavit (Hebrew for "Comet"), a space launch vehicle
- All pages with titles beginning with Comet
- All pages with titles containing Comet
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