Other stars have official names, so do other planet's moons. What about ours?
2006-08-09 18:03:57 · 18 answers · asked by Sereny 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
The name for earth is TIERRA FIRMA.
"earth" is suppossed to be small "e" because it is not the proper name. "earth" refers to any ground on any planet.
Most people call the earth "Earth" but that is a misconception.
The name for the sun is "SOL".
This "SOLar system" is reffered to as the SOL SYSTEM because it belongs to our sun. SOL's gravity holds it all together.
The Moon's name (latin) is La LUNA Artemis. (beloved moon)
Any time you see a word with the prefix "lun" it is reffering to the moon.
2006-08-09 18:14:54 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually, all the other moons are named after ours. It's kind of like saying that Hewlett Packard, Brother, Canon, Panasonic, and Ricoh all have xerox machines with brand names, but the Xerox machine in our office just says "Xerox" on it.
Our moon was named "Moon" first, but when Galileo saw Calisto and Io and the rest of the Jovian gang, he didn't think "Gee, Jupiter has it's own large round bodies in orbit around it," he thought "Gee, Jupiter has its own moons" - thereby honoring our Moon when it became the common name for all those other big rocks circling planets.
Or it's kind of like if some aliens had a pet human named "MaryJane." After having her in their zoo for 15 years, they went to earth and "Wow - there are millions of MaryJanes here! Some of them have names like Jack and Diane - how come our MaryJane has no name?"
Ditto with the sun. It's called "The Sun." Other suns are often called stars, but when astronomers get to talking about those stars having their own system of planets, moons, etc., they talk about that system's "sun." The name of our star, "Sun" is now used generically to refer to the same role for any star.
Those bodies are occasionally refered to by the Roman/Latin words for sun and moon - Sol and Luna - but those are not the recognized astronomical names for them.
2006-08-13 14:06:20 · answer #2 · answered by dougdell 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"The Sun" is its name, and it is Earth's 'star'. Many cultures have come up with many names for the moon. We just call it The Moon.
2006-08-09 18:10:47 · answer #3 · answered by rayhanks2260 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sol Sun
La Luna Artemis the beloved moon
2006-08-09 18:09:48 · answer #4 · answered by Faye 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sun=Sol
Moon=Luna
2006-08-10 12:04:44 · answer #5 · answered by Jake W 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sun=Sol
Moon=Luna
2006-08-09 20:03:37 · answer #6 · answered by mamanoelia 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Sun = Sol
The Earth = Terra
The Moon = Luna OR Selene
http://www.pantheon.org/articles/s/selene.html
PS Don't use Terra Firma (a Noun) as that was used only on maps, and then only to "denote dry land" and "not sea's or lakes and rivers." Look up Terra on Yahoo! or Google.
http://www.knowledgerush.com/kr/encyclopedia/Terra
Where it says: "Terra is also a name for the Earth."
2006-08-09 18:11:24 · answer #7 · answered by AdamKadmon 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
the earths sun??? I do think it's every planets sun...it's name is the sun...our moon's name is the moon!!!
2006-08-09 18:07:48 · answer #8 · answered by southernrebelgrl 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
officially sun is sun &the moon is the moon
2006-08-09 22:58:06 · answer #9 · answered by futurepilot 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the sun is sometimes refered to as Sol. the moon is just that, the moon.
2006-08-09 18:06:59 · answer #10 · answered by just another consciousness 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋