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Luna is just the Latin name for the Moon, but is the accepted scientific/technical name.
Astronomy / Space Our Moon has not been named!
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Technically the moon's name is already that the Moon.
Our moon is simply a satellite, however since it was the first satellite we "discovered" we called it that.
When we talk of other planets' "moons" we're simply talking about the satellites that revolve around said planet. We simply call the other planets' satellites "moons" since its easier to relate to what we are talking about.
Since no doubt... duller-minded individuals would imagine say Jupiter's satellites as the artificial ones we send to space and not as well; a moon.
Edit: hell here you go first sentence from wikipedia. -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon
The Moon (Latin: Luna) is Earth's only natural satellite.
To be fair, it was Arthur C Clarke that muddied the waters by calling his proposed orbiting repeater stations "artificial satellites". I guess he was just being poetic, and the engineers who actually built the things couldn't be bothered to come up with a better name for them.
I'm totally pulling this outa my you know what, but at a guess I'd say something to do with us having an atmosphere creating some sort of lensing effect?
It's not 'the Moon' or 'Luna' or 'Tsuki' ...
It's 'Månen'!
Get with the (Norwegian) program already, or I'll ÆØÅ you so hard you won't even know which letter is at the end of the alphabet.
Anyways, the moon is a satellite around earth. However, it gets confusing when we call it a satellite cause we have a swarm of man-made satellites zipping around the orbit of earth already. So calling the moon a satellite would just be confusing. So we call it, appropriately, the Moon (capital M).
But since the Moon is a body orbiting earth, we find it logical to address other bodies orbiting other planets for moons as well, since that is a familiar thing to us. Calling the moons around other planets for satellites would be confusing since why would someone have a satellite orbiting Jupiter? There's noone there to watch CNN anyways, right?
The topic has been covered in this article as well http://www.fromquarkstoquasars.com/the-moons-real-name-and-others-too/
I suppose one of the suggestions of calling it Sol-3A seems nice. At least no confusion then.
Slightly off-topic, my favourite dwarf planet is Haumea. It's rather unremarkable, however it is one of the only dwarf planets shaped like an american football. How cool is that!?
It's 'Månen'!
Get with the (Norwegian) program already, or I'll ÆØÅ you so hard you won't even know which letter is at the end of the alphabet.
Anyways, the moon is a satellite around earth. However, it gets confusing when we call it a satellite cause we have a swarm of man-made satellites zipping around the orbit of earth already. So calling the moon a satellite would just be confusing. So we call it, appropriately, the Moon (capital M).
But since the Moon is a body orbiting earth, we find it logical to address other bodies orbiting other planets for moons as well, since that is a familiar thing to us. Calling the moons around other planets for satellites would be confusing since why would someone have a satellite orbiting Jupiter? There's noone there to watch CNN anyways, right?
The topic has been covered in this article as well http://www.fromquarkstoquasars.com/the-moons-real-name-and-others-too/
I suppose one of the suggestions of calling it Sol-3A seems nice. At least no confusion then.
Slightly off-topic, my favourite dwarf planet is Haumea. It's rather unremarkable, however it is one of the only dwarf planets shaped like an american football. How cool is that!?
In the US sitcom 'Alf' (look it up) the fuzzy alien suggests that the solar system contains two more planets that humans have not yet discovered, called by his species: "Alan" and "Dave". Dave has a small moon, called "Dave Heights".
That's no moon!
how about Selene?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selene
That would pre-date the Roman Luna, but i might vote for 'Uggh' after that ancient Hominidae who first looked up into the night sky and got all excited about the white disk, and tried to persuade his troop they should all worship it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selene
That would pre-date the Roman Luna, but i might vote for 'Uggh' after that ancient Hominidae who first looked up into the night sky and got all excited about the white disk, and tried to persuade his troop they should all worship it.
The moon should obviously be called 'Gaggfarly' and thus have no connection to biased opinions anchored in random selections of cultures and languages.
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