Phaeton, Phaëton, Phaethon, Phæton, or Phaëthon may refer to:
Art
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Phaëton (Lully),
tragédie lyrique by
Jean Baptiste Lully
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''Phaethon'' (composition), 1986 composition by Christopher Rouse
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''The Fall of Phaeton'' (Rubens), a painting by Peter Paul Rubens
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Phaethon, a lost play by
Euripides
Astronomy
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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 ...
, small asteroid or comet responsible for the Geminids meteor shower
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Phaeton (hypothetical planet), a hypothetical fifth planet believed to have once existed between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter and whose destruction supposedly led to the formation of the asteroid belt
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Phaethontis quadrangle, a region on Mars
Biology
*''Phaethon'', genus name of the three
tropicbird species
Greek mythology
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Phaethon, son of
Helios
In ancient Greek religion and Greek mythology, mythology, Helios (; grc, , , Sun; Homeric Greek: ) is the deity, god and personification of the Sun (Solar deity). His name is also Latinized as Helius, and he is often given the epithets Hyper ...
, personification of the
Sun
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Phaethon, guardian of the temples of
Aphrodite
* Phaethon (horse), one of the horses of
Eos
People
* Phaethon, first king of the Bronze Age
Molossians
Physics
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Dark photon, also called phaeton, a hypothetical dark matter particle
Places
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Phaeton, Nord-Est
Phaeton ( ht, Fayeton) is a town in the Fort-Liberté Arrondissement, in the Nord-Est department of Haiti. It is an old factory town, like its neighbor, Derac, as part of the old Dauphin Plantation residential area. When the plantation still ope ...
, a town in Haiti
Vehicles
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Phaeton body, a style of open carriage or automobile
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Phaeton (carriage), a horse-drawn sporty open carriage
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Volkswagen Phaeton, a full-size luxury automobile built by Volkswagen until 2016
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Cadillac Phaeton, a full-size automobile built by Cadillac 1930-1940.
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Ford Phaeton, a 2-doors or 4-doors automobile built by Ford 1928-1932.
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''Phaethon'' (patrol boat), a patrol boat of the Navy of Cyprus
* Double Phaeton, a
Gräf & Stift luxury automobile c. 1910.
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HMS ''Phaeton'' (1782), a frigate of Britain's Royal Navy.
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