A comet is a small astronomical body which orbits the sun. Several unrelated things are named comet:

Miscellaneous

• Bill Haley & His Comets, a rock and roll band.
• 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.
• The comet assay, an experimental technique for measuring DNA damage.
• Comet (award), given by the German music television channel VIVA.
• Comet (programming), a technique to enable server-push communications using AJAX.
• The mascot of Contra Costa College
• Comet (pyrotechnics), a firework component.
• The term Comets pertains to students or teams at The University of Texas at Dallas.

Acronyms

COMET can be:

• Cooperative Program for Operational Meteorology, Education and Training (COMET) based in Boulder, Colorado
• COmmunication by MEteor Trails, see Meteor scatter#Military user.

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 (passenger car) rail car
• 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)

Publications

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

Objects 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)- Supergirl's pet horse in Pre-Crisis, and her angelic cenatur ally in Post-Crisis.
• The Comet (Impact), a superhero comic published by Impact Comics

Roller coasters

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

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