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

In Greek mythology

Several figures with astral associations:

  • Phaethon, son of Helios, personification of the Sun
  • Phaethon (son of Eos), guardian of the temples of Aphrodite
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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
  • The Seduction of Phaeton Black (2012) The Seduction of Phaeton Black, a steampunk novel by Jillian Stone
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