# Comet (disambiguation)

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
* HMS Comet, any of several ships of the British Royal Navy
* USS Comet, any of several United States Navy ships
* SMS Comet, two ships of the Prussian and Imperial German Navy
* 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
* Oklahoma City Comets, the current Triple-A affiliate of the Los Angeles Dodgers
* 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
* MG Comet EV an electric car rebadged from Wuling Air ev.

### 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