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, one of the horses of Eos
• Phaethon, 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, 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
• The Volkswagen Phaeton, a full-size luxury automobile built by Volkswagen
• Dark Photon, also called phaeton, a hypothetical dark matter paricle
• Phaethon (patrol boat), a patrol boat of the Navy of Cyprus