A comet is a small astronomical body which orbits the sun.
Comet or The Comet may also refer to:
Arts and entertainment
editMusic
edit- 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)
- 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
edit- The Comet (Great Escape), in New York
- Comet (Hersheypark), in Pennsylvania
- Comet (Lincoln Park), in Massachusetts
- Comet (Waldameer), in Pennsylvania
Other
edit- 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
edit- 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
edit- 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
editPopulated places
edit- 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
edit- 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
edit- 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
editUnited States
edit- 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
edit- 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
edit- Comet (card game), a 17th-century French card game still played today
Technology
edit- 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
editAirline
edit- Air Comet, a defunct Spanish airline
- Air Comet Chile, a defunct Peruvian airliner
Aircraft
edit- 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
edit- 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
edit- 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
- MG Comet EV an electric car rebadged from Wuling Air ev.
Water
edit- 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
edit- 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
edit- 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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