comet A comet is an icy, small Solar System body that, when passing close to the Sun, warms and begins to release gases, a process that is called outgassing. This produces a visible atmosphere or coma, and sometimes also a tail. These phenomena ...

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), a fictional superhero ** Comet (Impact Comics), 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, and artist Carmine Infantino. Once a minor character in the DC Comics canon, he occupies a ...

, a DC Comics superhero * Comet (Marvel Comics), 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 sub region), South West London, and surrounding areas. It is now a free sheet but can also be purchased. It was founded in 1 ...

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

Roller coasters

* Comet (Great Escape), 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 ...

, 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) 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 is a Japanese TV drama and manga series created and illustrated by Mitsuteru Yokoyama, the creator of '' Tetsujin 28-go'' and ''Giant Robo''. The TV drama tells the story of Comet, one of the princesses of the Triangle Nebula who came to ...

'', a Japanese TV and manga series * Comet, a dog appearing in the television series ''Full House'' * Comet, one of

Santa Claus's reindeer In traditional festive legend and popular culture, Santa Claus's reindeer are said to pull a sleigh through the night sky to help Santa Claus deliver gifts to children on Christmas Eve. The number of reindeer characters, and the names given ...

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 Gale Eugene Sayers (May 30, 1943September 23, 2020) was an American professional football player who was both a halfback and return specialist in the National Football League (NFL). In a relatively brief but highly productive NFL career, Sa ...

(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 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, 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 Manx comet is a rocky, minor, celestial body that has a long-period comet orbit. Unlike most bodies on a long-period comet orbit which typically sport long, bright tails, the Manx comet is tailless, more typical of an inner Solar System asteroid. ...

, 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 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 They Mohawk Valley Comets are a former professional ice hockey Ice hockey (or simply hockey) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an ice skating rink with lines and markings specific to the sport. It belongs to a family of ...

, 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 The Utica Comets are a professional ice hockey team based in Utica, New York, with home games at the Adirondack Bank Center. They are members of the North Division in the Eastern Conference of the American Hockey League (AHL) and affiliated wit ...

, an American Hockey League team * Comets, the athletics teams and mascot of the

University of Texas at Dallas The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD or UT Dallas) is a public research university in Richardson, Texas. It is one of the largest public universities in the Dallas area and the northernmost institution of the University of Texas system. It ...

* 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) 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) Comet is a web application model in which a long-held HTTPS request allows a web server to push data to a browser, without the browser explicitly requesting it. ''Comet'' is an umbrella term, encompassing multiple techniques for achieving this ...

, 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 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 pro ...

, 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 The de Havilland DH.106 Comet was the world's first commercial jet airliner. Developed and manufactured by de Havilland in the United Kingdom, the Comet 1 prototype first flew in 1949. It featured an aerodynamically clean design with four ...

, 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 The Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet is a rocket-powered interceptor aircraft primarily designed and produced by the German aircraft manufacturer Messerschmitt. It is the only operational rocket-powered fighter aircraft in history as well as ...

, 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 The is a two-seat carrier-based dive bomber developed by the Yokosuka Naval Air Technical Arsenal and operated by the Imperial Japanese Navy from 1942 to 1945 during World War II. Development of the aircraft began in 1938. The first D4Y1 was com ...

(''Suisei'', "Comet"), a Japanese WW2 dive bomber

Rail

Comet (railcar) The Comet railcar is a class of locomotive-hauled railcars that was first designed in the late 1960s by Pullman-Standard as a modern commuter car for North American rail lines. Later, the Comet moniker was adopted by NJ Transit for all of its non- ...

* 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 The Mercury Comet is an automobile that was produced by Mercury from 1960–1969 and 1971–1977 — variously as either a compact or an intermediate car. In its first two years, it was marketed as the "Comet" and from 1962 as the "Mercury Comet ...

, an American automobile * Leyland Comet, 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), 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 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 is an American brand of scouring powders and other household cleaning products manufactured by KIK Custom Products Inc. The brand was introduced in 1956 by Procter & Gamble (P&G) and sold to Prestige Brands in 2001. In 2018, Prestige Br ...

* COMET – Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies, in Austria * Comet Ping Pong, a pizzeria in Washington, D.C.