Comet (disambiguation)

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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, Missouri, 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 (disambiguation), 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, 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

Bus

• The Comet (transit), a transit operator in Columbia, South Carolina

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
• Gale Sayers, NFL Hall of Famer known as “The Kansas Comet” (b. 1943)

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