Phaeton

Phaeton, Phaëton, Phaethon, or Phaëthon may refer to:

In Greek mythology

Several figures with astral associations:

• Phaethon, son of Helios
• Phaethon (son of Eos), guardian of the temples of Aphrodite
• Phaethon, personification of the planet now known as Jupiter
• Phaethon (horse), one of the horses of Eos
• Phaethon (play), a lost play by Euripides

Other

• Phaethontis quadrangle, a region on Mars
• 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
• Phaethon, first king of the Bronze Age Molossians who arrived with Pelasgus
• Phaethon, genus name of the three tropicbird species
• Phaeton, Nord-Est, a town in Haiti
• 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
• Dark photon, also called phaeton, a hypothetical dark matter particle
• Phaethon (patrol boat), a patrol boat of the Navy of Cyprus
• Phaethon (composition), 1986 composition by Christopher Rouse
• Phaeton (Halo), a VTOL vehicle in the Halo universe
• Double Phaeton, a Gräf & Stift luxury automobile c. 1910.
• HMS Phaeton (1782), a frigate of Britain's Royal Navy.
• The Fall of Phaeton (Rubens), a painting by Peter Paul Rubens