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In the News (Sun 7 Sep 08)

  
  Comet Phaethon's Ride
Coincidentally, it was also in 1927 that Leonid Kulik, a Russian Scientist, located the area devastated by the twenty-megaton aerial explosion in 1908 of what was probably a piece of debris long ago separated from the progenitor of the still extant comet, Encke.
Kugler argued in favor of a Sun-like meteor.
A problem with using this type phenomenon to explain the origin of Phaethon's ride is the brevity of prelude to an actual impact with a large meteoroid; the object would become visible only after it entered the atmosphere, seconds before it crashed into earth or water.
abob.libs.uga.edu /bobk/phaeth.html   (5360 words)

  
  Phaethon 3, Greek Mythology Link - www.maicar.com
Some say that Phaethon 3 is the son of Helius (Sun) and the Oceanid Clymene 1; but others affirm that his parents were Clymenus 5 and the Oceanid Merope 4, and that Clymenus 5 was the grandfather of Phaethon 3, being himself the son of Helius.
It is told that Phaethon 3 and Epaphus 1—son of Io and future king of Egypt—were companions and had the same age, and that it was a discussion between them that made Phaethon 3 investigate the question of his father.
Phaethon 1, son either of Tithonus 2, or of Cephalus 2, was ravished by Aphrodite, and made a keeper of her shrine.
homepage.mac.com /cparada/GML/Phaethon3.html   (1209 words)

  
 Christopher Rouse - Composer - Phaethon
Helios swore to permit such a demonstration, but he was horrified when Phaethon demanded to be allowed to guide the chariot of the sun across the sky for one day; as Helios had made his oath in the name of the river Styx, Olympian law required that he guarantee his promise.
Phaethon was commissioned by the Philadelphia Orchestra, with the generous assistance of Johnson and Higgins, in celebration of the Bicentennial of the United States Constitution.
Phaethon is dedicated to the memory of Judith Resnik, Gregory Jarvis, Ronald McNair, Ellison Onizuka, Michael Smith, Francis Scobee, and Christa McAuliffe -- the seven astronauts who lost their lives that morning when they, too, were knocked from the sky.
www.christopherrouse.com /phaethonpress.html   (561 words)

  
 PHAETHON : Greek demigod child of the Sun ; mythology ; contellation Auriga
PHAETHON was a young son of Helios and Klymene who begged his father to let him drive the chariot of the sun.
Phaethon was memorialised amongst the stars as the Constellation Auriga (the Charioteer), or transformed into the planet Jupiter or Saturn (which was named Phaethon by the Greeks).
Now inexperienced Phaethon with his fiery whip could be seen flogging the horses’ necks; they went wild shrinking under the goad of their merciless charioteer, and all unwilling they ran away over the limit of their ancient road beyond the mark of the zodiac, expecting a different call from their familiar driver.
www.theoi.com /Titan/Phaethon.html   (6727 words)

  
 Phaethon
Phaethon, with his hair on fire, fell headlong, like a shooting star which marks the heavens with its brightness as it falls, and Eridanus, the great river, received him and cooled his burning frame.
That is the sun may have moved 180° from Scorpius on April 12 3636 BC and earth twisted slightly and flowed out of the reverse orbit of the sun perhaps as depicted by this Phaethon legend the counter to the sun miracle perhaps April 12 3637 BC of the Flood.
Thus Phaethon must most likely be the sun moving 180° east from Scorpius to Taurus March 31 2350 BC to mark the seven years of drought in Egypt as per Joseph's interpretation of Pharaoh Unas' dream matching Egyptian records and the dust layer at the top of Mount Kilimandjaro 2350 BC - 2345 BC.
sunnyokanagan.com /joshua/phaethon.html   (2887 words)

  
 Digimorph - Phaethon rubricauda melanorhynchos (Red-tailed tropicbird)
The red-tailed tropic bird (Phaethon rubricauda melanorhynchos) is geographically distributed in the Indian and Pacific Oceans (Boland et al., 2004; Le Corre et al., 2003; Spear and Ainley, 2000a; Spear and Ainley, 2000b).
The red-tailed topicbird belongs to a lineage of birds known as Phaethontidae (Boland et al., 2004; Spear and Ainley, 2005a; Spear and Ainley, 2005b).
Phaethon rubricauda melanorhynchos on Avibase - The Wold Bird Databse.
www.digimorph.org /specimens/Phaethon_rubricauda_melanorhynchos   (922 words)

  
 Phaethon
So as Phaethon took the chariot up into the clouds, all was going well for a while, but soon the horses discovered it was a mere boy driving them and they went wild.
Phaethon couldn't control the horses and the chariot swooped down close to the earth burning cities, and then sailed up and out into outerspace freezing everything.
The idea that the story of Phaethon could be about a large meteor was actually very new, and right in line with what was happening in scientific and popular literature.
www.jssgallery.org /Paintings/MFA/Phaethon.htm   (581 words)

  
 The puzzling Geminid meteor shower peaks on Dec 13/14, 1999   (Site not responding. Last check: )
3200 Phaethon, as the asteroid is now known, is in a highly elliptical 1.4 year orbit that brings it within 0.15 AU (astronomical units) of the Sun.
Phaethon's spectra look like those of a rocky asteroid, but its orbit is similar to that of a comet.
Phaethon's thick mantle gives it the outward appearance of an asteroid, but underneath lies the nucleus of a comet.
www.spacescience.com /newhome/headlines/ast06dec99_1.htm   (1443 words)

  
 Light Reading - Chips, Components & Subsystems - Phaethon Embarks on Tunability - Telecom News Analysis
Phaethon's devices can't tackle this problem right now, although the vendor says that capability is on the drawing board.
Phaethon also doesn't yet handle (but plans to handle) polarization mode dispersion (PMD), a problem caused by the fact that light can travel along slightly different paths inside a fiber, depending on how it bounces around as it travels.
Phaethon also points to its other assets, which include more than 15 patents from the University of Southern California, thanks to founder Alan Wilner, a professor at USC.
www.lightreading.com /document.asp?doc_id=6293   (1106 words)

  
 ASTER PHAETHON : Greek god of the star Jupiter or Saturn ; mythology
PHAETHON was the god of aster planetos (wandering star) Dios, the planet Jupiter, or, as some say, of Saturn.
Phaethon was either a star-born son of Eos, loved by the goddess Aphrodite, or, according to others, the boy Phaethon, a son of Helios who fell from heaven whilst trying to drive his father's sun-chariot.
His son was Phaethon, afterwards ravished by Aphrodite … and made a guardian (daimon) of her temple.
www.theoi.com /Titan/AsterPhaethon.html   (579 words)

  
 The Baffling Geminid Meteors   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Phaethon's sungrazing orbit might be responsible, in part, for the Geminids.
Phaethon doesn't have a tail now and there's no evidence that jets of vaporizing debris are pushing the asteroid around.
Phaethon spends less time there, but it does visit the asteroid belt every 17 months when it reaches its farthest point from the Sun.
science.nasa.gov /headlines/y2000/ast08dec_1.htm   (1222 words)

  
 Phaethon - History for Kids!
Phaethon was a little boy who lived alone with his mother.
Phaethon sulked for a while and then he decided to show those mean kids what was what.
Phaethon was only a little boy, and he was only half a god, and he certainly wasn't strong enough to handle those wild horses of the chariot of the sun!
www.historyforkids.org /learn/greeks/religion/myths/phaethon.htm   (781 words)

  
 Phaethon
One day the fair youth Phaethon, whose father was the sun god, Apollo, was taunted bout his parentage by Epaphus, a youth of the same age whose father was the mighty Zeus.
But Phaethon, full of confidence, would not change his mind, and the reluctant Apollo had the swift Hours yoke his team, lead the four fire-breathing steeds from the stable, and fasten on the jingling harness.
Phaethon’s terror mounted as he sighted the Scorpion and the other monstrous beasts sprawling over the face of the high heavens.
home.earthlink.net /~mr.steelnack/id58.html   (722 words)

  
 3200 Phaethon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Phaethon's most remarkable distinction is that it approaches the Sun closer than any other numbered asteroid; its perihelion is only 0.140 AU — 58% of Mercury's orbital radius.
However IAUC 3881 soon after discovery of 3200 Phaethon reported Fred Whipple's observation that "orbital elements of 1983 TB shown on IAUC 3879 are virtually coincident with the mean orbital elements of 19 Geminid meteors photographed with the super-Schmidt meteor cameras".
Phaethon thus turned out to be the long-sought parent body of the Geminids meteor shower of mid-December.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/3200_Phaethon   (373 words)

  
 Metamorphoses I:748-II:366 Phaethon
Phaethon, offspring of Phoebus the Sun God, was a similarly spirited youth.
Phaethon mounts the delicately built chariot and stands upright, rejoicing to take the reins given into his youthful hands; he thanks his unhappy parent.
Phaethon sees marvels scattered throughout the heavens and is frightened by the forms of fierce beasts.
david-drake.com /ovid/phaethon.html   (4114 words)

  
 Phaethon: Myths and Legends of the World
In Greek mythology, Phaethon was the son of the sun god Helios and the sea nymph
Phaethon's friends teased him because they did not believe that the sun was his father.
Phaethon journeyed to Helios's palace to determine the truth.
history.enotes.com /myths-legends/phaethon   (177 words)

  
 Christopher Rouse's orchestral 'Phaethon' gallops toward the sun   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The first offering of the season, his orchestral work, "Phaethon," has death in it, from the Greek legend to a bizarre connection to a recent national tragedy.
The thunderbolt strike with hammer, bass drum and cymbal is unmistakable, occurring about a minute from the work's end, followed by falling figures and chaos in the strings.
The overriding impression of "Phaethon" is of unbounded energy.
www.post-gazette.com /pg/04268/384319.stm   (554 words)

  
 Mythography | The Legend of Phaethon in Myth and Art
According to myth, Phaethon was the son of Helios, the god of the Sun, and Clymene.
It was not until Phaethon reached a certain age, however, that he learned that his father was indeed the Sun-god.
As soon as Phaethon took hold of the reins, however, it was clear that he could not control the powerful horses.
www.loggia.com /myth/phaethon.html   (452 words)

  
 Appendix - The Story of Phaethon.
That Phaethon was currently represented as the son of Aurora, the common story, as related by Ovid, sufficiently proves.
While Phaethon claimed to be the son of Phoebus, or the sun, he was reproached with being only the son of Merops--i.e., of the mortal husband of his mother Clymene (OVID, Metam.
Matutinus is evidently just the correlate of Matuta, goddess of the morning; Janus, therefore, as Matutinus, is "Lucifer, son of the morning." But further, Matuta is identified with Ino, after she had plunged into the sea, and had, along with her son Melikerta, been changed into a sea-divinity (Gradus ad Parnassum, sub voce "Ino").
www.biblebelievers.org.au /2bab051.htm   (703 words)

  
 IEC: Online Education   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Phaethon Communications, an innovator in photonics technology, is developing the first family of modules to address optical dispersion at both OC–192 and OC–768.
Phaethon’s feature-rich dispersion-management modules dramatically reduce the degradation of optical signals, enabling communications network providers to send signals farther, over more channels, and at faster speeds—making possible the all-optical mesh network of tomorrow.
Phaethon was founded specifically to help network communications providers overcome the major forms of dispersion—chromatic, slope mismatch, and polarization mode—responsible for the performance bottlenecks hindering development of current and future optical networks.
www.iec.org /profiles/phaethon_01   (277 words)

  
 Greek Mythology Phaethon   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Once a young boy named Phaethon bragged that his father was Helios.
Phaethon fell down on his knees and said, "Oh, great Helius, are you truly my father?" "Ah yes, Clymene's boy Phaethon." Helius said, "I am your father." "Prove to me you are my father." Phaethon told him.
Phaethon was flying among the clouds feeling very proud and happy.
www.hol.gr /greece/mythology/phaethon.html   (303 words)

  
 Dust Trail of a Dead Comet Phaethon
Asteroid (3200) Phaethon, discovered in 1983, is a source of Geminids meteor shower occured in December.
When the view direction from the Earth to Phaethon and the direction of Phaeton's orbit coincide, the dust trail around the nucleus of Phaethon may look like the coma or tail.
They observed Phaethon on 2003 December 19 using a Tektronix 2048x2048 pixel CCD and a standard Kron-Cousins R-band filter at the f/10 focus of the University of Hawaii (UH) 2.2-m telescope on Mauna Kea.
www.aerith.net /astro/Phaethon-dust-trail.html   (1160 words)

  
 Notebook   (Site not responding. Last check: )
When some one had doubted his divine origins, he questioned his mother and when she confirmed that in fact his father was the Sun, she sent Phaethon to seek him out.
Phaethon thereupon approached Helios and asked him to prove that he was indeed his offspring.
Phaethon took the command of the vehicle but the horses soon understood that they were being driven by a fledgling charioteer, so ran out of control close to the earth which was set afire.
www.noteaccess.com /APPROACHES/AGW/Phaethon.htm   (234 words)

  
 Phaethon
Phaethon: My mother told me you were my father.
Phaethon was ecstatic as he made the ascent into the clear morning sky.
Phaethon’s flaming body fell and landed in the river Eridanus.
www.angelfire.com /nj2/DevynsDen/phaethon.html   (797 words)

  
 Phaethon, Ovid's Metamorphoses, Links and Notes
Tells Phaethon story, emphasizing how he was initially motivated by an insult by another youth of noble lineage, Epaphos, who told him spitefully that he should not pride himself on his divine origin for his father was not Helius, but a mere mortal.
Phaethon may have secretly mounted the chariot rather than asked permission to use it.
Discussion of possible astronomical phenonemon giving rise to the myth of Phaethon's ride and the scorching of the earth - the fall of a large meteor or more likely, a close brush with a comet.
www.geocities.com /tmartiac/thalassa/phaethon.htm   (744 words)

  
 Phaethon, Ovid Metamorphoses, Resources, Links and Notes on Greek and Roman mythology
Phaethon meets his father, who is Apollo, east of India at the end of the world.
Phaethon may have secretly mounted the chariot rather than asked to use it.
Discussion of possible astronomical phenonemon giving rise to the myth of Phaethon's ride and the scorching of the earth - the fall of a large meteor or a close brush with a comet.
www.webwinds.com /thalassa/phaethon2.htm   (674 words)

  
 The mysterious Geminids meteor shower   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Although 3200 Phaethon has some of the characteristics of a comet it does not develop a cometary tail when it passes close to the Sun.
One of the earliest ideas was that Phaethon might occasionally collide with other asteroids.
If 3200 Phaethon is indeed an asteroid, it probably looks like these objects.
science.nasa.gov /newhome/headlines/ast04dec98_1.htm   (1489 words)

  
 CL 301:
Phaethon, the son of the Sun, asks the god to prove his paternity by giving over the reigns to his heavenly chariot.
Riding through the sky, Phaethon tries his best to control his father's horses, but plummets to the earth and perishes.
For fragments of the Phaethon: C. Collard et al.
www.skidmore.edu /classics/courses/1999fall/cl301/phaethon.html   (123 words)

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