Comet (disambiguation)

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A comet is a small astronomical body which orbits the sun.

Comet may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment

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, an Imperial German Navy aviso (dispatch boat)
• Comet line, a World War II resistance group

Places

• Comet, Queensland, a town in Australia
• Comet River, Queensland
• Comet, Arkansas, an unincorporated community
• Comet, Missouri, an unincorporated community
• Comet, Montana, a ghost town
• Comet, North Carolina, an unincorporated community
• Comet Falls, Washington
• Comet Geyser, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
• Comet Mountain, in Montana, United States
• Comet Mountain (British Columbia), in Canada
• Comet Peak, Nevada
• Mount Comet, in the Christmas Mountains of New Brunswick, Canada
• Comet Galaxy, a spiral galaxy

Science

• Comet (fish), a marine fish
• Comet (goldfish)
• Comet moth
• Tillandsia 'Comet', a hybrid cultivar
• 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, another species of hummingbird
• Grey-bellied comet, Taphrolesbia griseiventris, another species of hummingbird

Sports

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

Transportation

People

• Catherine Comet (born 1944), American symphony conductor
• Noah Comet, professor of English literature at the United States Naval Academy
• Gale Sayers (born 1943), NFL Hall of Famer known as "The Kansas Comet"

Other uses

• Comet Group, a defunct UK retail chain
• Comet (cleanser)
• The Comet, a weekly local newspaper published in Stevenage, Hertfordshire
• Surrey Comet, a weekly local newspaper published in London
• The Daily Comet, a newspaper in Thibodaux, Louisiana
• COMET – Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies, in Austria

See also

• Comet assay, an experimental technique for measuring DNA damage
• Komet (disambiguation)
• Shavit (Hebrew for "Comet"), a space launch vehicle
• All pages beginning with Comet
• All pages with a title containing Comet