Phaeton, Phaethon, Foeton, or Foethon 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 Phæton), provisionally designated , 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 sm ...

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

Phaeton (hypothetical planet) Phaeton (alternatively Phaethon or Phaëton ; from , ) is a hypothetical planet hypothesized by the Titius–Bode law to have existed between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, the destruction of which supposedly led to the formation of the aster ...

, possibly destroyed to form the asteroid belt *

Phaethontis quadrangle The Phaethontis quadrangle is one of a series of list of quadrangles on Mars, 30 quadrangle maps of Mars used by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) Astrogeology Research Program. The Phaethontis quadrangle (geography), quadrangle is also ...

, a region on Mars * Foethon, an archaic Greek name for the planet

Jupiter Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the List of Solar System objects by size, largest in the Solar System. It is a gas giant with a Jupiter mass, mass more than 2.5 times that of all the other planets in the Solar System combined a ...

Greek mythology

Phaethon Phaethon (; , ), also spelled Phaëthon, is the son of the Oceanids, Oceanid Clymene (mother of Phaethon), Clymene and the solar deity, sun god Helios in Greek mythology. According to most authors, Phaethon is the son of Helios who, out of a de ...

, 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 ...

, guardian of the temples of Aphrodite * Phaethon, one of the horses of

Eos In ancient Greek mythology and Ancient Greek religion, religion, Eos (; Ionic Greek, Ionic and Homeric Greek ''Ēṓs'', Attic Greek, Attic ''Héōs'', "dawn", or ; Aeolic Greek, Aeolic ''Aúōs'', Doric Greek, Doric ''Āṓs'') is the go ...

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 U ...

, a style of open carriage or automobile *

Phaeton (carriage) A phaeton (also phaéton) is a form of sporty open carriage popular in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. Drawn by one or two horses, a phaeton typically features 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 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 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 Gräf & Stift was an Austrian manufacturer of automobiles, trucks, buses and trolleybuses, from 1902 until 2001, latterly as a subsidiary of MAN SE, MAN. It was founded by the brothers Franz, Heinrich and Karl Gräf, and the investor, Wilhel ...

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 ...

species * Phaeton, Haiti, an old factory town *

Phaethon (roller coaster) Phaethon () is an inverted roller coaster at Gyeongju World in South Korea, which opened in May 5, 2007 to commemorate Children's Day and to renovate Gyeongju World to boost tourism. The coaster has been initially announced in 2006. It is South K ...

, a steel inverted roller coaster at Gyeongju World in South Korea * Phaethon, proxy group and protagonists of

Zenless Zone Zero ''Zenless Zone Zero'' is a free-to-play action role-playing game developed and published by miHoYo (with publishing outside mainland China under HoYoverse, Cognosphere, d/b/a ''HoYoverse''). The game was released on Windows, iOS, Android (oper ...

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