Comet (disambiguation) explained

A comet is a small astronomical body which orbits the sun.

Comet or The Comet may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Music

• Comet (band), an American band
• Comet (The Bouncing Souls album) (2012)
• Comet (Younha album) (2007)
• "Comet" (song), an American children's song
• Comet (Firefall album) (2020)
• "Comet" (Yoasobi song) (2021)

Print

• Comet (Archie Comics), a fictional superhero
  • Comet (Impact Comics), based on the Archie Comics character
• 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 (British comics)
• The Comet (newspaper), based in Stevenage, Hertfordshire
• The Comet (fanzine), 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
• Surrey Comet, a weekly local newspaper published in London
• The Daily Comet, a newspaper in Thibodaux, Louisiana

Roller coasters

• The Comet (Great Escape), in New York
• Comet (Hersheypark), in Pennsylvania
• Comet (Lincoln Park), in Massachusetts
• Comet (Waldameer), in Pennsylvania

Other

• Comet (film), a 2014 American romantic comedy-drama
• Comets (film), a 2019 Georgian drama
• Comet (pinball), a pinball machine
• Comet (TV network)
• Princess Comet, a Japanese TV and manga series
• Comet, a dog appearing in the television series Full House
• Comet, one of Santa Claus's reindeer

Military

• Comet (tank), a British armoured vehicle
• , any of several ships of the British Royal Navy
• , any of several United States Navy ships
• , 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 (fl. 2010s), 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

Other 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
• 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, a species of hummingbird
• Grey-bellied comet, Taphrolesbia griseiventris, another species of hummingbird
• Manx comet, a type of tailless comet

Sports and games

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

Games

• Comet (card game), a 17th-century French card game still played today

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
• Comet Lake, a codename for a microprocessor series

Transportation

Airline

• Air Comet, a defunct Spanish airline
• Air Comet Chile, a defunct Peruvian airliner

Aircraft

• Cessna Comet, an early aircraft
• de Havilland Comet, a jet airliner
• de Havilland DH.88 Comet, a British two-seater racing aeroplane
• Dornier Komet, German 1920s airliner
• FK-Lightplanes FK12 Comet German two seat sports/aerobatic homebuilt biplane
• Hockaday Comet, an American two-seat sports aircraft
• Ireland Comet, an American two seat biplane
• Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet, German WW2 rocket interceptor
• Speedtwin E2E Comet 1, a British aerobatic aeroplane
• Vomet Comet - a nickname for aircraft used to simulate zero gravity
• Wedell-Williams Model 44 named the Ring Free Comet, an American racing monoplane
• Yokosuka D4Y (Suisei, "Comet"), a Japanese WW2 dive bomber

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
• The Comet (train), a UK passenger train 1932–1962
• LDE – Comet, a 19th-century German locomotive
• South Devon Railway Comet class, a type of locomotive

Road

• Mercury Comet, an American automobile
• Comet (marque), a short-lived automobile brand
• 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
• 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
• , a Scottish paddle steamer, operating the first European steamship service (1812)
• , any of several American and British merchant ships
• Comet (dinghy), a class of centreboard sailing boat
• Comet (racing dinghy)

Other uses

• Comet Group, a UK retail chain
• Comet (cleanser)
• COMET – Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies, in Austria
• Comet Ping Pong, a pizzeria in Washington, D.C.
• "The Comet" (Adventure Time), a television episode

See also

• Comet assay, an experimental technique for measuring DNA damage
• Komet (disambiguation)
• Shavit (Hebrew for "Comet"), a space launch vehicle