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Phaeton, Phaethon, Foeton, or Foethon may refer to:

Art

• Phaëton (Lully), a tragédie lyrique by Jean Baptiste Lully
• Phaethon (composition), a 1986 composition by Christopher Rouse
• The Fall of Phaeton (Rubens), a painting by Peter Paul Rubens
• Phaethon (play), a lost play by Euripides

Astronomy

• 3200 Phaethon, a small asteroid or comet responsible for the Geminids meteor shower
• Phaeton (hypothetical planet), possibly destroyed to form the asteroid belt
• Phaethontis quadrangle, a region on Mars
• Foethon, an archaic Greek name for the planet Jupiter

Greek mythology

• Phaethon, son of Helios, personification of the Sun
• Phaethon of Syria, guardian of the temples of Aphrodite
• Phaethon, one of the horses of Eos

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
• 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

Other uses

• Phaethon, first king of the Bronze Age Molossians
• Dark photon, also called phaeton, a hypothetical dark matter particle
• Phaethon, genus name of the three tropicbird species
• Phaeton, Haiti, an old factory town
• Phaethon (roller coaster), a steel inverted roller coaster at Gyeongju World in South Korea
• Phaethon, proxy group and protagonists of Zenless Zone Zero

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