Phaeton
Phaeton, Phaëton, Phaethon, Phæton, or Phaëthon may refer to:
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Art
- Phaethon (composition), 1986 composition by Christopher Rouse
- The Fall of Phaeton (Rubens), a painting by Peter Paul Rubens
- Phaethon, a lost play by Euripides
Astronomy
- 3200 Phaethon, small asteroid or comet responsible for the Geminids meteor shower
- 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
- Phaethontis quadrangle, a region on Mars
Biology
- Phaethon, genus name of the three tropicbird species
Greek Mythology
People
- Phaethon, first king of the Bronze Age Molossians
Physics
- Dark photon, also called phaeton, a hypothetical dark matter particle
Places
- Phaeton, Nord-Est, a town in Haiti
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
- Cadillac Phaeton, a full-size automobile built by Cadillac 1930-1940.
- Ford Phaeton, a 2-doors or 4-doors automobile built by Ford 1928-1932.
- 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.
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