Phaeton

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

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

• Phaethon, son of Helios, personification of the Sun
• 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

• 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.