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Phaethon

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Noun

1. phaethon

(Greek mythology) son of Helios; killed when trying to drive his father's chariot and came too close to earth

2. genus phaethon, phaethon

type genus of the Phaethontidae

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Phaethon

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noun
an asteroid (6.9 km in diameter) that has an orbit approaching close to the sun and releases fragments of dust that enter the earth's atmosphere as meteors
noun
Greek mythology
the son of Helios (the sun god) who borrowed his father's chariot and nearly set the earth on fire by approaching too close to it. Zeus averted the catastrophe by striking him down with a thunderbolt

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Phaethon

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noun
Classical Mythology
son of Helios, the sun god: he unsuccessfully tries to drive his father's sun chariot and almost sets the world on fire, but Zeus strikes him down with a thunderbolt

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Phaethon

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n.
Greek Mythology
A son of the sun god Helios who was killed by Zeus while trying to drive his father's chariot across the sky.

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