Comet (disambiguation)

A comet is a small astronomical body which orbits the sun. It may also refer to:

Sports

• Houston Comets, a WNBA professional basketball team
• Kansas City Comets, a defunct indoor soccer team
• I.K. Comet, Norwegian ice hockey team

Acronyms

• COoperative Program for Operational Meteorology, Education and Training (COMET), based in Boulder, Colorado
• COmunication by MEteor Trails, used by NATO
• COrnell Macintosh Emulator of Terminals
• Concurrent Object Modeling and architectural design mEThod, a UML-compliant design method for concurrent applications
• ODOT Corridor Operation Management Emergency Team

Vehicles

• Mercury Comet, an automobile
• Leyland Comet/Ashok Leyland Comet series of buses and lorries
• De Havilland DH.88 "Comet", a 1934 race plane
• De Havilland Comet, the world's first commercial jet airliner
• Messerschmitt Me 163 airplane
• Comet (railcar)
• Comet (train), a streamlined train of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
• Comet tank, a British armored vehicle
• HMS Comet, sixteen ships of the Royal Navy
• German auxiliary cruiser Komet
• South Devon Railway Comet class, a 4-4-0ST steam locomotive
• PS Comet, a paddle steam ship
• Comet (sailboat), a class of centerboard sailboat
• USNS Comet (T-AK-269), a military cargo ship

Publications

• Comet (comic), a British comic magazine, published between 1950 and 1959
• The Comet, the first science fiction fanzine, first published in 1930

In fiction and legend

• Comet (Full House). dog belonging to the Tanner family in the sitcom Full House
• Comet the Reindeer, one of Santa Claus's reindeer
• Comet, a fictional model of broomstick in the Harry Potter series
• Comet (DC Comics), two different comic book characters, both associated with Supergirl
• The Comet (Archie Comics), a comic book superhero
• The Comet (Impact Comics), a superhero and the comic in which appeared

Roller coasters

• Comet (Great Escape) in New York
• Comet (Hersheypark) in Pennsylvania
• Comet (Lincoln Park) in Massachusetts

Miscellaneous

• Comet, Queensland, a town in Australia
• Comet Group plc, a chain of electric goods shops in the United Kingdom.
• Comet (goldfish), a commonly kept form of goldfish
• Comet (cleanser), a powdered cleaning product sold in North America
• "Comet" (song), a well-known children's song in the United States
• Comet assay, an experimental technique for measuring DNA damage
• Comet (award), given by the German music television channel VIVA
• Comet (programming), a web application model using server-push communication
• the mascot of Contra Costa College
• Comet (pyrotechnics), a firework component
• Comets, name applied to the students or teams at the University of Texas at Dallas
• Comet (Beanie Baby), a Beanie Baby teddy bear produced by Ty, Inc. in November 2003