Comet (disambiguation)
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Comet can refer to:
- COMET (programming), a Web 2.0 technique to enable server-push communications using AJAX.
- Comet, the class of astronomical body.
- HMS Comet, sixteen ships of the Royal Navy.
- Bill Haley & His Comets, a rock and roll band.
- COMET, a chain of electric goods shops in the United Kingdom.
- Comet (goldfish).
- Comet (railcar)
- Comet (cleanser), a powdered cleansing product sold in North America.
- Comet (song), a well-known children's song in the United States.
- The comet assay, an experimental technique.
- Comet (roller coaster), in the defunct Lincoln Park in Massachusetts.
- Comet (Award), given by the German music television channel VIVA.
- Comet (train), a streamlined train of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad.
- The Comet (rollercoaster), an active rollercoaster at the Six Flags amusement park The Great Escape & Splashwater Kingdom.
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Vehicle types
- Mercury Comet, an automobile.
- De Havilland DH.88 "Comet", a 1934 race plane.
- De Havilland Comet, the world's first commercial jet airliner.
- Leyland Comet/Ashok Leyland Comet series of buses and lorries.
- Comet tank, a British armored vehicle.
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Publications
- Comet, a British comic magazine, published 1950 - 1959.
- The Comet, the first science fiction fanzine, first published in 1930.
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Objects in fiction and legend
- Comet (Full House) - Dog belonging to the Tanner family in the sitcom Full House.
- One of Santa Claus's reindeer.
- Comet, a fictional model of broomstick in the Harry Potter series.
- Comet the Superhorse, Supergirl's pet horse.
- The Comet, a superhero comic published by Impact Comics