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7**Comets** are urbits whose names are 128-bits or 16 syllables, such as:
9`~dasres-ragnep-lislyt-ribpyl--mosnyx-bisdem-nidful-marzod`
11Comet names aren't quite as memorable as others, but they're disposable identities that anyone can make for free to join the live network.
13## Booting a Comet
15To boot your comet, go into the command line and run the following command from the directory that was created during Urbit installation:
17```
18$ urbit -c mycomet
19```
21This will take a few minutes and will spin out a bunch of boot messages. Toward the end, you'll see something like:
23```
24ames: on localhost, UDP 31337.
25http: live (insecure, public) on 8080
26http: live ("secure", public) on 8443
27http: live (insecure, loopback) on 12321
28~dasres_marzod:dojo>
29```