But if any asteroid was going to make a run on Earth, it might be an Apollo asteroid like Phaethon. Apollo asteroids take their name from 1862 Apollo, an asteroid discovered in 1932 by German ...

The Apollo-class Phaethon asteroid – which has its origins in the famous Geminids meteor shower – has been baffling astronomers this week. An Apollo-class asteroid is a space rock which orbits ...

Phaethon was the restless teenage son of Apollo, the god of the sun, one of the most important gods of Mount Olympus. It was his job to pilot a giant glass chariot containing the sun across the ...

One of the Greek mythology yarns has Cygnus as Phaethon, the restless teenage son of Apollo, the god of the sun. Apollo was one of the most important gods of Mount Olympus. His job was to guide a ...

View Phaethon before his father Apollo; Phaethon in the Chariot of the Sun God; The Fall of Phaethon; and The Sisters of Phaethon transformed into Poplars: Illustrations for the Metamorphoses of Ovid ...