Comet

A comet is a small body in the solar system that orbits the sun and (at least occasionally)

Comets in fiction

Comets are popular subjects for science fiction authors and filmmakers although they are often misrepresented as fiery objects, rather than icy.

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• Jules Verne's Hector Servadac, Voyages et aventures à travers le Monde Solaire (Off on a Comet, 1877) is a deeply implausible Victorian vision of touring the solar system via a handy comet.
• H. G. Wells' In the Days of the Comet (1905) is a account of how the vapours of a comet's tail cause an instantaneous worldwide utopian society.
• Tove Jansson's Comet in Moominland (1946) depicts the world of the Moomins threatened by a fiery comet.
• The Day of the Triffids (1951) is a novel by John Wyndham in which a meteor shower causes permanent and irreversible blindness in the population and renders them easy prey to giant mobile vegetables.
• Lucifer's Hammer (1977), a novel by Larry Niven, is an apocalyptic survival story featuring a comet impact on Earth.
• In Heart of the Comet (1987), a novel by Gregory Benford and David Brin, a multinational team colonizes Halley's Comet, building a habitat within the ice.
• Arthur C. Clarke's novel ' (1988) includes a detailed description of a manned mission to Halley's Comet.
• The Hammer of God (1993) is a novel by Arthur C. Clarke in which an object (Kali) which threatens to strike earth appears to be an almost dead comet.
• The Paramount/DreamWorks motion picture Deep Impact (1998) tells the story of a comet on a collision course with Earth, and focuses primarily on the emotional reactions of those who are affected by the impending disaster.