A comet is a small astronomical body which orbits the sun. 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) The Comet is a fictional character that first appeared in ''Pep Comics'' #1 in January 1940 in comics, 1940. A little over a year later, the Comet was the first superhero to be killed in the line of duty. He died in issue #17 (July 1941 in comics ...

, a fictional superhero **

Comet (Impact Comics) The Comet is a fictional character, a superhero that first appeared in the DC Comics' Impact Comics series, ''The Comet''. The character is loosely based on the Archie Comics character, '' The Comet''. Fictional character biography The Comet's s ...

, based on the Archie Comics character *

Comet (DC Comics) Comet is the name of two fictional comic book characters owned by DC Comics whose adventures have been published by that same company. The first character was a sapient horse with magical powers who was once a centaur in ancient Greece. The secon ...

, either of two fictional comic book characters *

Captain Comet Captain Comet (Adam Blake) is a superhero appearing in American Comic Books published by DC Comics, created by editor Julius Schwartz, writer John Broome (writer), John Broome, and artist Carmine Infantino. Once a minor character in the DC Comics ...

, a DC Comics superhero *

Comet (Marvel Comics) Tatiana Caban Bethany Cabe Caber Caber is one of the Celtic gods of Avalon, a warrior god. Caber is a good friend to Leir and usually accompanies him in battle. Cable Danielle Cage Danielle "Dani" Cage is a fictional character in Marvel ...

, a fictional character * ''Comet'' (magazine), a US pulp science fiction magazine * ''The Comet'' (UK 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 The ''Surrey Comet'' is a weekly local newspaper covering the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, in South West London, and surrounding areas. It is now a free sheet but can also be purchased. It was founded in 1854 and is among the oldest Lo ...

'', a weekly local newspaper published in London * '' The Daily Comet'', a newspaper in Thibodaux, Louisiana

Roller coasters

Comet (Great Escape) The Comet is a wooden roller coaster located at Six Flags Great Escape and Hurricane Harbor in Queensbury, New York, in the United States. Built from parts of the Crystal Beach Cyclone in 1948 at Crystal Beach, The Comet was resurrected and re ...

, in New York *

Comet (Hersheypark) Comet is a wooden roller coaster at Hersheypark in Hershey, Pennsylvania. It is located in the Hollow section of Hersheypark, next to Skyrush. Built in 1946 by the Philadelphia Toboggan Coasters (PTC) of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the coaster fe ...

, in Pennsylvania *

Comet (Lincoln Park) The Comet was a twister-layout wooden roller coaster that operated in the now defunct Lincoln Park in Massachusetts. It operated from 1946 until 1987. History The coaster, originally named Cyclone, was designed by Edward Leis and Vernon Ke ...

, in Massachusetts *

Comet (Waldameer) The Comet is a wooden roller coaster located at Waldameer Park in Erie, Pennsylvania, United States. It was designed by Herbert Schmeck and built by the Philadelphia Toboggan Company Philadelphia Toboggan Coasters (PTC) is one of the oldest ...

, in Pennsylvania

Other

* ''Comet'' (film), a 2014 American romantic comedy-drama * ''Comets'' (film), a 2019 Georgian drama *

Comet (pinball) ''Comet'' is a pinball machine released by Williams in June 1985. It was designed by Barry Oursler, who was inspired by the Comet roller coaster at Riverview Park in Chicago, and was the first in an amusement park themed pinball trilogy follo ...

, a pinball machine *

Comet (TV network) Comet is an American digital broadcast television network owned by the Sinclair Television Group subsidiary of the Sinclair Broadcast Group. The network focuses on science fiction with some supernatural, horror, adventure and fantasy series and ...

* '' 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) The Comet tank or Tank, Cruiser, Comet I (A34) was a British cruiser tank that first saw use near the end of the Second World War, during the Western Allied invasion of Germany. The Comet was developed from the earlier Cromwell tank and mount ...

, 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 Catherine Comet (born 1944) is a French-born, American conductor who from 1986 to 1997 was the music director of the Grand Rapids Symphony in Grand Rapids, Michigan, becoming the first woman to hold a post as music director of a professional orch ...

(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 Comet is a historical rich rural town and locality in the Central Highlands Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Comet had a population of 498 people. Geography Comet is the oldest town in the Emerald area, established at ...

, Australia * Comet, Arkansas, United States *

Comet, Missouri Comet is an unincorporated community in southeast Dade County, in the U.S. state of Missouri. The community lies on the banks of the Sac River The Sac River (pronounced, sock) is a river in the Ozarks of Southwest Missouri. It is long,U.S. Geo ...

, United States *

Comet, Montana Comet is a ghost town located approximately twenty miles (32 kilometers) south-southwest of Helena, Montana, United States. It is reached by following High Ore Road north from Interstate 15 in Montana, Interstate 15. The remains of the town cover ...

, United States *

Comet, North Carolina Comet is an unincorporated community in Ashe County, North Carolina North Carolina () is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States. The state is the 28th largest and 9th-most populous of the United States. It is bordered b ...

, United States *

Comet, Jackson County, Ohio Comet is an unincorporated community in Washington Township, Jackson County, Ohio, United States. It is located at , on the western edge of Wellston. Comet was originally founded along the Ohio Southern Railroad as a company town A compa ...

, United States *

Comet, Summit County, Ohio Comet is an unincorporated community in Green Township, Summit County, Ohio, United States. It is located on the northwestern end of Comet Lake and wholly within the city of Green. The Comet Post Office was established on May 23, 1883, and disc ...

, United States

Other locations

* Comet River, Queensland, Australia *

Comet Mountain (British Columbia) Comet Mountain, 1742 m (5715 feet), is a mountain in the Kitimat Ranges of British Columbia, Canada, located immediately west of the head of Dean Channel in the Central Coast region of that province, to the northwest of the town of Bella Coola. T ...

, Canada * Mount Comet, in the Christmas Mountains of New Brunswick, Canada *

Comet Mountain Comet Mountain, 3113 m (10213 feet), is a mountain peak in the Pioneer Mountains of the state of Montana, United States, located in Beaverhead County 42 km northwest of Dillon. See also *Comet (disambiguation) A comet is a small astr ...

, Montana, United States * Comet Peak, Nevada, United States *

Comet Falls Comet Falls is a tall waterfall located on Van Trump Creek in Pierce County, Washington. The falls are thought to be the best in the Mount Rainier region. Stature At first glance the falls drop about out of a hanging valley A v ...

, Washington, United States *

Comet Geyser Comet Geyser is a geyser in the Upper Geyser Basin of Yellowstone National Park in the United States. Comet Geyser is part of the Daisy Group which includes Daisy Geyser, Splendid Geyser and Brilliant Pool. As opposed to the other features in ...

, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, United States *

Comet Galaxy The Comet Galaxy, a spiral galaxy located 3.2 billion light-years from Earth, in the galaxy cluster Abell 2667, was found with the Hubble Space Telescope. This galaxy has slightly more mass than our Milky Way. It was detected on 2 March 2007. ...

, a spiral galaxy 3.2 billion light years from Earth

Science

Comet (fish) The comet or marine betta (''Calloplesiops altivelis'') is a species of reef-associated tropical marine fish in the longfin family Plesiopidae, most commonly found between 3 and 50 m deep. It is native to the Indo-Pacific Ocean. It can reach a ...

, a marine fish *

Comet (goldfish) The comet or comet-tailed goldfish is a single-tailed goldfish bred in the United States. It is similar to the common goldfish, except slightly smaller and slimmer, and is mainly distinguished by its long deeply forked tail. Comet goldfish tend ...

Comet moth The comet moth or Madagascan moon moth (''Argema mittrei''). is a moth native to the rain forests of Madagascar. The species was first described by Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville in 1847. The adult moth cannot feed and only lives for 4 to 5 d ...

* Comet, the ancestor of the shorthorn cattle breed *

Comet (experiment) COMET (Coherent Muon to Electron Transition) is a nuclear physics experiment in J-PARC, Tōkai, Ibaraki, Tokai, Japan. In contrast to the usual muon decay to an electron and neutrino, COMET seeks to look for neutrinoless muon to electron conversio ...

, 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 The grey-bellied comet (''Taphrolesbia griseiventris'') is a species of hummingbird in the family Trochilidae. It is found only in a few small areas of Peru. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland and rural gard ...

, ''Taphrolesbia griseiventris'', another species of hummingbird * Manx comet, a type of tailless comet

Sports and games

United States

Baltimore Comets The Baltimore Comets were a professional soccer team based in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1974, the Comets were an expansion team that played two seasons in the North American Soccer League. The team originally played its home matches a ...

, a defunct North American Soccer League team (1974–75) *

Clinton Comets The Clinton Comets were an American ice hockey team in Clinton, New York. Founded in 1927–28 as the Clinton Hockey Club and nicknamed the Comets in 1949, the team played primarily at the Clinton Arena from 1949 until 1973. The team was origin ...

, an ice hockey team from 1927 to 1973 *

Houston Comets The Houston Comets were a Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) team based in Houston. Formed in 1997, the team was one of the original eight WNBA teams and won the first four championships of the league's existence. They are one of two ...

, 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) The Mohawk Valley Comets were a semi-professional ice hockey team in the North Eastern Hockey League (NEHL) based in Whitestown, New York. The franchise was a strong team of mostly local talent coming from the Mohawk Valley. The Comets had a ...

, 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 Adelaide Comets FC are a soccer club based in Adelaide, South Australia. The club competes in the National Premier Leagues South Australia. They are based in Adelaide's western suburb of Mile End and play home games at Santos Stadium. History ...

, an Australian soccer club * Allgäu Comets, an American Football team from Germany * Dundee Comets, a Scottish ice hockey team *

Ebun Comets Ebun Comets is a Nigerian professional basketball club. The club currently competes in the NBBF National Division One, the top flight league in the country. They have won one national championship, in 2003, 2005 and 2007. In 2006, they played In ...

, a Nigerian Premier League basketball team *

IK Comet IK Comet Halden is an ice hockey club based in Halden, Norway. They currently play in the First Division. They play their home games in Halden Ishall. Their team colours are green, black and white. History Ishockeyklubben Comet was founded in ...

, a defunct Norwegian ice hockey team * Workington Comets, a speedway club based in Cumbria, UK

Games

Comet (card game) Comet is a very old, French card game of the Stops family for 2 to 5 players that is still played today. It was originally called Manille, but acquired a new name on the appearance of Halley's Comet in 1682.Parlett (1991), p. 118. It is not relate ...

, a 17th-century French card game still played today

Technology

* Comet (programming), a web application model using server-push communication *

Comet (programming language) Comet is a commercial programming language designed by at-the-time Brown University professor Dr. Pascal Van Hentenryck and used to solve complex combinatorial optimization problems in areas such as resource allocation and scheduling. It offers ...

, used to solve combinatorial optimization problems *

Comet (pyrotechnics) In pyrotechnics a comet is a block attached to the outside of a shell or launched freely, which burns and emits sparks as the shell is rising, leaving a trail in the sky. Some comets use a matrix composition with small stars A star is an ast ...

, a firework component * The "Comet" swirl chamber, used in diesel engines *

Comet Lake Comet Lake is Intel's codename for its 10th generation Core microprocessors. They are manufactured using Intel's third 14 nm Skylake process refinement, succeeding the Whiskey Lake U-series mobile processor and Coffee Lake desktop proces ...

, a codename for a microprocessor series

Transportation

Airline

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

Aircraft

Cessna Comet __NOTOC__ The Cessna Comet was an early aircraft designed and built by Clyde Cessna in the United States in 1917. It was a conventionally configured wire-braced monoplane with a semi-enclosed cabin that seated one passenger in addition to the pil ...

, an early aircraft * de Havilland Comet, a jet airliner *

de Havilland DH.88 The de Havilland DH.88 Comet is a British two-seat, twin-engined aircraft built by the De Havilland, de Havilland Aircraft Company. It was developed specifically to participate in the 1934 England-Australia MacRobertson Air Race from the Unite ...

Comet, a British two-seater racing aeroplane *

Dornier Komet The Dornier ''Komet'' ("Comet"), ''Merkur'' ("Mercury"), Do C, Do D, and Do T were a family of aircraft manufactured in Germany during the 1920s, originally as small airliners, but which saw military use as well. The earliest aircraft in the seri ...

, German 1920s airliner * FK-Lightplanes FK12 Comet German two seat sports/aerobatic homebuilt biplane *

Hockaday Comet The Hockaday Comet was a two-seat light civil aircraft, built in the United States before World War II but not flown until near the war's end. It failed to attract buyers and only one was completed. Design The design of the Hockaday Comet, led ...

, 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 The Speedtwin E2E Comet 1, originally named the Phillips ST1 Speedtwin, is a two-seat, twin engined aircraft designed in the UK to be capable of aerobatics and the only civil twin certified for intentional spinning. After a long development t ...

, 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 The Leyland Comet was a long running badge used by Leyland for a series of trucks (and the occasional bus) intended mainly for export markets. The name lives on in India, where Ashok Leyland still uses the badge today. First generation The sem ...

, a series of buses and trucks *

James Comet The James Comet was a 98 cubic centimeter (cc), two-stroke, motorcycle manufactured by the James Cycle Co. and announced on 21 October 1948. A post-World War II design, the Comet went into production in late 1948. Comet J1 / J3 / J10 rigid fram ...

, 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) The COMET, officially the Central Midlands Regional Transit Authority (CMRTA), is a regional transportation authority formed by Richland County, City of Columbia, and Lexington County on April 24, 2000, by the Central Midlands Council of Governme ...

, 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) The Comet, sometimes called the Comet OD or Comet One-Design, is an American sailing dinghy that was designed by C. Lowndes Johnson as a one-design racer and first built in 1932. The design has evolved over time via modifications.Sherwood, ...

, a class of centreboard sailing boat *

Comet (racing dinghy) The Comet is a single handed, one design racing dinghy available with three separate rigging options: Standard, Xtra and Mino, that can be raced competitively alongside each other. It is mainly sailed in the United Kingdom at club level and at o ...

Other uses

Comet Group Comet Electricals Limited, trading as Comet, is an online electrical retail chain based in the United Kingdom. The company sells consumer electronics and white goods, along with related products and services. Its predecessor, under the same bra ...

, a UK retail chain * Comet (cleanser) *

COMET – Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies COMET – Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies is a central funding program of the Austrian technology politics. It serves to create competence centers for various topics at selected locations. Basic Strategy The COMET program stimulates a ...

, in Austria * Comet Ping Pong, a pizzeria in Washington, D.C.