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 3200 Phaethon (previously sometimes spelled Phaeton), provisional designation , is an active Apollo asteroid with an orbit that brings it closer to the Sun than any other named asteroid (though there are numerous unnamed asteroids with smaller ...

, a small asteroid or comet responsible for the Geminids meteor shower *

Phaeton (hypothetical planet) Phaeton (alternatively Phaethon or Phaëton ; from grc, Φαέθων, Phaéthōn, ) was the hypothetical planet hypothesized by the Titius–Bode law to have existed between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, the destruction of which supposedly ...

, possibly destroyed to form the asteroid belt *

Phaethontis quadrangle The Phaethontis quadrangle is one of a series of 30 quadrangle maps of Mars used by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) Astrogeology Research Program. The Phaethontis quadrangle is also referred to as MC-24 (Mars Chart-24). The name com ...

, a region on Mars

Greek mythology

Phaethon Phaethon (; grc, Φαέθων, Phaéthōn, ), also spelled Phaëthon, was the son of the Oceanid Clymene and the sun-god Helios in Greek mythology. According to most authors, Phaethon is the son of Helios, and out of desire to have his par ...

, son of Helios, personification of the Sun *

Phaethon of Syria In Greek mythology, Phaethon ( /ˈfeɪ.əθən/; Ancient Greek: Φαέθων, ''Phaéthōn'', pronounced ʰa.é.tʰɔːn was a son of Eos by Cephalus of Athens or Tithonus, born in Syria. Family Phaethon was the father of Astynous, who in hi ...

, guardian of the temples of Aphrodite *

Phaethon (horse) Phaethon (; grc, Φαέθων, Phaéthōn, shiner, ), also spelled Phaëthon, is the son of the Oceanid Clymene and the sun god Helios in Greek mythology. According to most authors, Phaethon is the son of Helios, and out of a desire to have h ...

, one of the horses of

Eos In ancient Greek mythology and religion, Eos (; Ionic and Homeric Greek ''Ēṓs'', Attic ''Héōs'', "dawn", or ; Aeolic ''Aúōs'', Doric ''Āṓs'') is the goddess and personification of the dawn, who rose each morning from her home at ...

Vehicles

Phaeton body A phaeton is a style of open automobile without any fixed weather protection, which was popular from the 1900s until the 1930s. It is an automotive equivalent of the horse-drawn fast, lightweight phaeton carriage. A popular style in the US ...

, a style of open carriage or automobile *

Phaeton (carriage) A phaeton (also phaéton) was a form of sporty open carriage popular in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. Drawn by one or two horses, a phaeton typically featured a minimal very lightly sprung body atop four extravagantly large ...

, a horse-drawn sporty open carriage *

Volkswagen Phaeton The Volkswagen Phaeton ( ) (''Typ'' 3D) is a full-size luxury sedan/saloon manufactured by the German automobile manufacturer Volkswagen, described by Volkswagen as their "premium class" vehicle. Introduced at the 2002 Geneva Motor Show, the ...

, 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 Gräf & Stift was an Austrian manufacturer of automobiles, trucks, buses and trolleybuses, from 1902 until 2001, latterly as a subsidiary of MAN. It was founded in 1902 by the brothers Franz, Heinrich and Karl Gräf, and the investor, Wilhelm S ...

luxury automobile c. 1910 * HMS ''Phaeton'' (1782), a frigate of Britain's Royal Navy

Other uses

* Phaethon, first king of the Bronze Age

Molossians The Molossians () were a group of ancient Greek tribes which inhabited the region of Epirus in classical antiquity. Together with the Chaonians and the Thesprotians, they formed the main tribal groupings of the northwestern Greek group. On t ...

Dark photon The dark photon (also hidden, heavy, para-, or secluded photon) is a hypothetical hidden sector particle, proposed as a force carrier similar to the photon of electromagnetism but potentially connected to dark matter. In a minimal scenario, this ...

, also called phaeton, a hypothetical dark matter particle *''Phaethon'', genus name of the three

tropicbird Tropicbirds are a family, Phaethontidae, of tropical pelagic seabirds. They are the sole living representatives of the order Phaethontiformes. For many years they were considered part of the Pelecaniformes, but genetics indicates they are most cl ...

species * Phaeton, Haiti, an old factory town * Phaethon (roller coaster), a steel inverted roller coaster at Gyeongju World in South Korea {{disambiguation