Phaeton
Phaeton, Phaëton, Phaethon, Phæton, or Phaëthon may refer to:
Art
- Phaëton (Lully), a tragédie lyrique by Jean Baptiste Lully
- Phaethon (composition), a 1986 composition by Christopher Rouse
- The Fall of Phaeton (Rubens), a painting by Peter Paul Rubens
- Phaethon (play), a lost play by Euripides
Astronomy
- 3200 Phaethon, a small asteroid or comet responsible for the Geminids meteor shower
- Phaeton (hypothetical planet), possibly destroyed to form the asteroid belt
- Phaethontis quadrangle, a region on Mars
Greek mythology
- Phaethon, son of Helios, personification of the Sun
- Phaethon of Syria, guardian of the temples of Aphrodite
- Phaethon (horse), one of the horses of Eos
Vehicles
- Phaeton body, a style of open carriage or automobile
- Phaeton (carriage), a horse-drawn sporty open carriage
- Volkswagen Phaeton, a full-size luxury automobile built by Volkswagen until 2016
- Phaethon (patrol boat), a patrol boat of the Navy of Cyprus
- Double Phaeton, a Gräf & Stift luxury automobile c. 1910
- HMS Phaeton (1782), a frigate of Britain's Royal Navy
Other uses
- Phaethon, first king of the Bronze Age Molossians
- Dark photon, also called phaeton, a hypothetical dark matter particle
- Phaethon, genus name of the three tropicbird species
- Phaeton, Haiti, an old factory town
- Phaethon (roller coaster), a steel inverted roller coaster at Gyeongju World in South Korea
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