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Phaethon
Phaethon Asteroid 3200, a member of the
Apollo group, discovered in 1983 by the Infrared Astronomical Satellite. Phaethon's orbit is very similar to that of the
Geminid meteor shower, and it may be their parent body. Before the discovery of Phaethon, meteor showers were generally believed to be associated only with comets, but infrared observations suggest that Phaethon has a rocky surface, not the dusty crust expected for an extinct cometary nucleus. Phaethon is an F-class asteroid with a diameter of about 5 km. Its orbit has a semimajor axis of 1.271 AU, period 1.43 years, perihelion 0.14 AU, aphelion 2.40 AU, and inclination 22°.2. It can approach to within 0.02 AU (3 million km) of the Earth's orbit.
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Phaethon Communications Closes $22.1 Million Series B Funding Round; New Investors Goldman Sachs and Cisco Systems Join Returning Investors Mohr, Davidow Ventures and The Photonics Fund.
Business Wire; 3/7/2001; 700+ words
; ...BUSINESS WIRE)--March 7, 2001 Phaethon Communications, an innovator in photonics...Ventures (MDV) and The Photonics Fund. Phaethon plans to use this capital to increase...with what their support can bring to Phaethon's product development cycle," said...
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Phaethon Communications Adds Two Industry Powerhouses to its Board of Directors.
Business Wire; 3/7/2001; 700+ words
; ...Both Jump At the Chance to Participate in Phaethon's Rapid Rise in the Optical Networking Arena Phaethon Communications, an innovator in photonics...includes Gary Cuccio, CEO and president of Phaethon; Alan Willner, Phaethon founder and chief...
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Phaethon Communications Completes Its Executive Team, Welcoming Bruce Barton as VP Marketing.
Business Wire; 5/14/2001; 700+ words
; ...Telecommunications Industry and Marketing Savvy Phaethon Communications, an innovator in photonics...position of vice president of marketing for Phaethon. "We couldn't be happier to have found Bruce to fill this vital position at Phaethon," said Gary Cuccio, Phaethon's CEO...
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Phaethon Builds World-Class Team to Lead Charge Toward 'Light Without Limits'(TM).
PR Newswire; 10/16/2000; 700+ words
; ...Calif., Oct. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Phaethon Communications, an emerging player in...quest to offer "Light Without Limits." Phaethon's solutions will solve the problems...partner with Mohr, Davidow Ventures, was Phaethon's acting president and CEO at its inception...
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Phaethon Communications Debuts 40 Gbps ClearSpectrum Dispersion Compensators for Polarization Mode Dispersion and Chromatic Dispersion.
Business Wire; 3/4/2002; 700+ words
; ...BUSINESS WIRE)--March 4, 2002 Phaethon's Latest Products Tackle the Top Two...for Enabling 40 Gbps Optical Networks Phaethon Communications, an innovator in photonics...interpret at the intended receiver. Phaethon already offers ClearSpectrum CD Compensators...
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Phaethon Communications Rounds Out Its Executive Team, Adding Three Industry Veterans to Key Positions.
Business Wire; 4/30/2001; 700+ words
; ...Counsel Philip Cardman Bring Skills Important to Phaethon's Next Stages of Growth Phaethon Communications, an innovator in photonics technology...each of whom contributes critical expertise as Phaethon prepares for commercial delivery of its first...
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Phaethon Communications debuts 40 Gbps ClearSpectrum dispersion Compensators for Polarization Mode Dispersion and Chromatic Dispersion. (New Products/Services).
Newspaper article from: Fiber Optics Weekly Update; 3/8/2002; 700+ words
; Phaethon Communications introduced the first 40...to interpret at the intended receiver. Phaethon already offers ClearSpectrum CD Compensators...fiber Bragg grating (FGB) technology of Phaethon's ClearSpectrum CD Compensators for...
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SIGNS OF OPTICAL SIGNAL CLARITY; PHAETHON PREPS MODULES FOR DISPERSION COMPENSATION AT 10G, 40G.(Product Announcement)
Magazine article from: Network World; 6/25/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...and today's 10G bit/sec speeds. Phaethon Communications, an 18-month-old...results in network transmission errors. Phaethon's weapon is a patented technique for...wavelengths while transmitting others. Phaethon plans to unveil a line of chromatic dispersion...
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Phaethon Tunes UP $22M Second Round.
Magazine article from: Private Equity Week; 3/12/2001; ; 637 words
; ...that others are only able to manage, Phaethon Comminications recently raised $22...Cuccio, chief executive and president of Phaethon. The primary problem Cuccio and his...managing director with Goldman Sachs. Phaethon expects to complete its self-tuning...
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Dennis Looney and Deanna Shemek, eds. Phaethon's Children: The Este Court and Its Culture in Early Modern Ferrara.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Annali d'Italianistica; 1/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; Dennis Looney and Deanna Shemek, eds. Phaethon's Children: The Este Court and Its Culture in Early Modern...artistic and other media, is very appropriately under the sign of Phaethon. This son of Apollo drove the chariot of the sun too close...
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Phaethon
Book article from: Myths and Legends of the World
Phaethon In Greek mythology, Phaethon was the son of the sun god Helios and the sea nymph Clymene. Phaethon's friends teased him because they did not believe that the sun was his father. Phaethon journeyed to Helios's palace to determine...
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meteoroid
Book article from: A Dictionary of Astronomy
...meteor shower, are a few millimetres in diameter, and have low densities (0.2–0.3 g/cm 3 ). Meteoroids in the Geminid stream, whose parent body is the asteroid Phaethon , have a higher density, 2 g/cm 3 .
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Geminid meteors
Book article from: A Dictionary of Astronomy
...xB0;, near Castor. Activity is seen from December7 to 15 and is produced by debris in a common orbit with the asteroid Phaethon . Geminid meteors are slow (geocentric velocity 35 km/s) and often bright. The Geminids' apparent asteroidal...
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Phaethontidae
Book article from: A Dictionary of Zoology
...highly aerial and pelagic , feed mainly on fish caught by diving, and nest on cliffs. There are three species, including Phaethon , that are wideranging in winter and breed in the Caribbean, and in the Pacific, S. Atlantic, and Indian Oceans.
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Helios
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
Helios in Greek mythology, the sun personified as a god, father of Phaethon . He is generally represented as a charioteer driving daily from east to west across the sky.
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