Comet (disambiguation)
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A comet
is a small astronomical body which orbits the sun. It may also refer to:
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Teams
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Road vehicles
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Comet
A comet is an icy small Solar System body that, when close enough to the Sun, displays a visible coma and sometimes also a tail. These phenomena are both due to the effects of solar radiation and the solar wind upon the nucleus of the comet...
is a small astronomical body which orbits the sun. It may also refer to:
Animals
- Comet (goldfish)Comet (goldfish)The comet or comet-tailed goldfish is the most common variety of fancy goldfish 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.-Origins:...
, a commonly kept form of goldfish - Several species of hummingbirds:
- Bronze-tailed CometBronze-tailed CometThe Bronze-tailed Comet is a species of hummingbird in the Trochilidae family. It is monotypic within the genus Polyonymus....
(Polyonymus caroli) - Grey-bellied CometGrey-bellied CometThe Grey-bellied Comet is a species of hummingbird in the Trochilidae family.It is found only in Peru.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland and rural gardens....
(Taphrolesbia griseiventris) - Red-tailed CometRed-tailed CometThe Red-tailed Comet is a medium-sized hummingbird found in the central Andes of Bolivia and Argentina.-Description:...
(Sappho sparganura)
- Bronze-tailed Comet
- Comet mothComet mothThe Comet moth or Madagascan moon moth is an African moth, native to the rain forests of Madagascar. The male has a wingspan of twenty centimeters and a tail span of fifteen centimeters, making it one of the world's largest silk moths...
, an African moth
In fiction and legend
- Comet, a fictional model of broomstick in the magical objects in the Harry Potter series
- Comet, one of Santa Claus's reindeer, as named in "The Night Before Christmas"
In comic-books characters
- Comet (Archie Comics), a fictional superhero in the comic-book series Pep Boys
- Comet (DC Comics), two fictional comic-book characters associated with the Superman family of titles
- Comet (Impact Comics), a fictional superhero in the comic-book series Impact Comics
- Comet (Marvel Comics)Comet (Marvel Comics)Comet is a fictional character in the Marvel Universe.-Publication history:The Comet first appeared in Nova #21 , and was created by Marv Wolfman and John Buscema....
, a Marvel Comics character
In television
- Comet, a Golden Retriever in the American situation-comedy television series Full House
Publications
- Comet (book)Comet (book)Comet is a popular-science book by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan. It describes the scientific nature of comets, as well as their varying roles and perceptions throughout history...
, a popular-science book by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan - The CometThe CometThe Comet was an American science fiction fanzine, the first of its kind.-History:It was first published in May 1930 by the Science Correspondence Club in Chicago, Illinois....
, the first science fiction fanzine - The Comet (comic magazine), a British publication
- The Comet (short story)The Comet (short story)The Comet is a science fiction short story, written by W. E. B. Du Bois in 1920. It discusses the relationship between Jim Davis and Julia after a comet hits New York and unleashes toxic gases which kill everyone except them.Originally published as the tenth chapter of Du Bois's Darkwater:...
, a short story found in Darkwater by W.E.B. DuBois - Hitchin CometHitchin CometThe Comet is a local newspaper published throughout Stevenage, Hitchin and Letchworth Garden City in Hertfordshire.-External links:*...
, a newspaper published in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England
Roller coasters
- Comet (Great Escape)Comet (Great Escape)The Comet is a wooden roller coaster located at The Great Escape & Splashwater Kingdom, Lake George in Queensbury, New York, in the United States.-History:...
, a wooden roller coaster located at The Great Escape & Splashwater Kingdom in Queensbury, New York - Comet (Hersheypark)Comet (Hersheypark)The Comet is a wooden roller coaster at Hersheypark in Hershey, Pennsylvania. Built in 1946 by the Philadelphia Toboggan Company of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the coaster features a double out and back track layout...
, a wooden roller coaster located at Hersheypark in Hershey, Pennsylvania - Comet (Lincoln Park)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. It continues to rot away as time passes by.- History of The Comet :...
, a defunct wooden roller coaster located at Lincoln Park in North Dartmouth, Massachusetts
In sports
Mascots and teams- Comets, a mascot and name applied to the students or teams at Contra Costa CollegeContra Costa CollegeContra Costa College, in San Pablo, California, is the west campus of the Contra Costa Community College District. It is part of the California community colleges system, one of the three college systems in California.- History :...
- Comets, a mascot and name applied to the students or teams at the University of Texas at DallasUniversity of Texas at DallasThe University of Texas at Dallas, also referred to as UT Dallas or UTD, is a public research university in the University of Texas System. The main campus is in the heart of the Richardson, Texas, Telecom Corridor, north of downtown Dallas...
Teams
- Houston CometsHouston CometsThe Houston Comets were a Women's National Basketball Association team based in Houston, Texas, United States. Formed in 1997, the team was one of the best original eight WNBA teams and won the first four championships of the league's existence. The Comets were the first dynasty of the WNBA and...
, a defunct professional American basketball team of the Women's National Basketball Association - IK Comet, a defunct professional Norwegian ice hockey team
- Kansas City CometsKansas City CometsThe Kansas City Comets were a professional indoor soccer team based for most of its existence in Kansas City, Missouri. They played in the original Major Indoor Soccer League from 1979–1991, when they folded...
, a professional American indoor soccer team of the Major Indoor Soccer League
In transportation and military and naval craft
Aircraft- De Havilland CometDe Havilland CometThe de Havilland DH 106 Comet was the world's first commercial jet airliner to reach production. Developed and manufactured by de Havilland at the Hatfield, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom headquarters, it first flew in 1949 and was a landmark in aeronautical design...
, the world's first commercial jet airliner to reach production - De Havilland DH.88De Havilland DH.88The de Havilland DH.88 Comet was a twin-engined British aircraft that won the 1934 MacRobertson Air Race, a challenge for which it was specifically designed...
Comet, a British twin-engine racing aeroplane - Messerschmitt Me 163Messerschmitt Me 163The Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet, designed by Alexander Lippisch, was a German rocket-powered fighter aircraft. It is the only rocket-powered fighter aircraft ever to have been operational. Its design was revolutionary, and the Me 163 was capable of performance unrivaled at the time. Messerschmitt...
Komet, a German rocket-powered fighter aeroplane - Air Comet, a defunct Spanish airline
Rail
- Comet (railcar), a class of locomotive-hauled railcars
- CoMETCometA comet is an icy small Solar System body that, when close enough to the Sun, displays a visible coma and sometimes also a tail. These phenomena are both due to the effects of solar radiation and the solar wind upon the nucleus of the comet...
, a rapid transit benchmarking organization - Comet (train)Comet (train)The Comet was a diesel electric streamliner built in 1935 for the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad by the Goodyear-Zeppelin Company...
, a streamliner train of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad - South Devon Railway Comet classSouth Devon Railway Comet classThe Comet class were 12 4-4-0 saddle tank broad gauge locomotives operated on the South Devon Railway and associated railways. They were designed for passenger trains on this steep and sharply curved line but were also used on goods trains when required....
, locomotives operated on the South Devon Railway
Road vehicles
- Comet tankComet tankThe Tank, Cruiser, Comet I was a British cruiser tank that first saw use near the end of World War II. It was designed to provide greater anti-tank capability to Cromwell tank squadrons. It was armed with a 77mm HV, a derivative of the 17 pounder, with the result it was one of the few British...
, a British armoured vehicle - Leyland Comet, an Indian series of buses and trucks produced by Ashok LeylandAshok LeylandAshok Leyland is a commercial vehicle manufacturing company based in Chennai, India. Founded in 1948, the company is one of India's leading manufacturers of commercial vehicles, such as trucks and buses, as well as emergency and military vehicles. Operating six plants, Ashok Leyland also makes...
- Mercury CometMercury CometThe Mercury Comet is an automobile produced by the Mercury division of the Ford Motor Company from 1960–1969 and 1971-1977 — variously as either a compact or an intermediate car.The Comet was based on the compact Ford Falcon and later the Ford Maverick...
, an American automobile produced by the Ford Motor Company - Riley Comet, a version of the Riley 4Riley 4The Riley 4/68 and 4/72 are cars produced by BMC from 1959 through the 1960s. They are related to the Pinin Farina-designed Austin A55 Cambridge, MG Magnette Mk...
motorcar - A fictional car in the Grand Theft AutoGrand Theft Auto (series)Grand Theft Auto is a multi-award-winning British video game series created in the United Kingdom by Dave Jones, then later by brothers Dan Houser and Sam Houser, and game designer Zachary Clarke. It is primarily developed by Edinburgh based Rockstar North and published by Rockstar Games...
series, based on a Porsche 911Porsche 911The Porsche 911 is a luxury 2-door sports coupe made by Porsche AG of Stuttgart, Germany. It has a distinctive design, rear-engined and with independent rear suspension, an evolution of the swing axle on the Porsche 356. The engine was also air-cooled until the introduction of the Type 996 in 1998...
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Watercraft
- Comet (dinghy), a class of centreboard sailing boat
- CometComet (clipper)The Comet was an 1851 California clipper built by William H. Webb which also sailed in the Australia trade and the tea trade. This extreme clipper was very fast...
, an 1851 California clipper which sailed in the Australia trade and the tea trade - Comet (steamboat)Comet (steamboat)The SS Comet was a steamship that operated on the Great Lakes. The Comet was built in 1857 as a wooden-hulled propeller-driven cargo vessel that was soon adapted to carry passengers. She suffered a series of maritime accidents prior to her final sinking in 1875 causing the loss of ten lives...
, an American steamboat sunk in Lake Superior - German auxiliary cruiser KometGerman auxiliary cruiser KometKomet was an auxiliary cruiser of the German Kriegsmarine in the Second World War, intended for service as a commerce raider...
, a cruiser of the German Kriegsmarine sunk during World War II, various ships of the British Royal Navy - PS CometPS CometThe paddle steamer PS Comet was built for Henry Bell, hotel and baths owner in Helensburgh, and began a passenger service in 1812 on the River Clyde between Glasgow and Greenock, the first commercially successful steamboat service in Europe.-History:...
, a Scottish paddle steamer - SS CometSS CometSS Comet may refer to one of several Type C2 ships built for the United States Maritime Commission: , built by Federal Shipbuilding; transferred to the United States Navy as USS Pollux ; wrecked and lost in Newfoundland in 1942 , built by Tampa Shipbuilding; transferred to the United States Navy...
, a name used by various American and British merchant ships, a United States Navy military cargo ship in service fromm 1958 to 1985 and now in reserve, various United States Navy ships
In music
- Bill Haley & His CometsBill Haley & His CometsBill Haley & His Comets was an American rock and roll band that was founded in 1952 and continued until Haley's death in 1981. The band, also known by the names Bill Haley and The Comets and Bill Haley's Comets , was the earliest group of white musicians to bring rock and roll to the attention of...
, an American rock and roll band - Comet (album)Comet (album)혜성 is the 1.5th Korean album by pop/rock singer Younha, released on October 23, 2007. It is a remake of her first Japanese album Go! Younha with a few tracklist changes.-Track listing:# 혜성 Hyeseong ...
, by the Korean singer Younha - "Comet" (song)Comet (song)"Comet" was a well-known humorous children's song in the United States. It describes the deleterious effects of consuming Comet cleanser—a powdered cleansing product sold in North America. The most prominent and often-occurring effect in the song is that it turns one's teeth green...
, an American children's song
Other
- Comet GalaxyComet GalaxyThe Comet Galaxy is 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 a little more mass than our Milky Way...
, a spiral galaxy - Comet (cleanser)Comet (cleanser)Comet is a powdered cleaning product sold in North America and distributed in the United States by Prestige Brands. Scratch Free Comet with Bleach Disinfectant Cleanser contains 1.2% sodium dichloro-s-triazinetrione dihydrate and 98.8% "other" ingredients...
, a powdered cleaning product sold in North America - Comet (programming)Comet (programming)Comet is a web application model in which a long-held HTTP 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 interaction. All these methods rely on features included by...
, a web application model using server-push communication - Comet (programming language)Comet (programming language)Comet is an object-oriented programming language used to solve complex combinatorial optimization problems in areas such as resource allocation and scheduling...
, programming languages to solve combinatorial optimization problems - Comet (pyrotechnics)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 embedded in it. The matrix composition burns with little light but...
, a firework component - Comet assayComet assayThe Single Cell Gel Electrophoresis assay is an uncomplicated and sensitive technique for the detection of DNA damage at the level of the individual eukaryotic cell. It was first described by Singh et al. in 1988...
, an experimental technique for measuring DNA damage - Comet Group, a chain of electronic-goods shops in the United Kingdom
- Comet, QueenslandComet, QueenslandComet is a town in central Queensland, Australia. The town is located on the Capricorn Highway, north west of the state capital, Brisbane. At the 2006 census, Comet and the surrounding area had a population of 233....
, a town in Australia - Comet, the ancestor of the shorthorn cattle breed
- Comet lineComet lineThe Comet line was a World War II resistance group in Belgium/France which helped Allied soldiers and airmen return to Britain. The line started in Brussels, where the men were fed, clothed and given false identity papers before being hidden in attics and cellars of houses...
, a World War II resistance group which operated in Belgium and France - ShavitShavitShavit is a space launch vehicle produced by Israel to launch small satellites into low earth orbit. It was first launched on September 19, 1988 , making Israel the eighth country to have a space launch capability after the USSR, United States, France, Japan, People's Republic of China, United...
, or Hebrew for comet, a space launch vehicle