Comet (disambiguation)

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

Comet or The Comet may also refer to:

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
 * 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 (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"

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

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

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
 * 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
 * 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 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