Why doesn’t our moon have a name?

[disappoint]

They didn't give it a name because they didn't know there were any others to differentiate it from. Same with the sun.

THE moon, THE sun. Alludes to only 1 of each.

 

[pmv]

exactly Earths satellite is the O.G. One so it's called "The Moon"

Explained street style...

Exactly. The same reason why UK stamps don't have the name of the country on them or why US websites just use .com instead of .com.us. Get in first and you get the generic name,

 

[Perknose]

My moon has a name: Kissme.

 

[dank69]

I think we should come up with a name for our planet first

 

[Raizinman]

Actually, when you really think about it, the Moon and/or Sun were the 2nd/3rd celestial bodies we ever saw.

The first we ever saw was, obviously, the Earth.

Using that logic, the Earth should be called planet.

 

[Exterous]

They aren't moons, they are satellites, our satellite is named Moon

:thumbsup:

Actually, when you really think about it, the Moon and/or Sun were the 2nd/3rd celestial bodies we ever saw.

The first we ever saw was, obviously, the Earth.

Unless they on their backs looking up at the sun\moon when they opened their eyes as a baby

 

[jagec]

Using that logic, the Earth should be called planet.

The name of our planet alludes to our agricultural heritage. I'm sure that other species would call their planets things like "Warmth", or "Homebase", or "Wet", based on what was important to them.

 

[Geosurface]

I've always understood our moon's proper name to be Luna, and our sun's name to be Sol.

 

[Perknose]

The name of our planet alludes to our agricultural heritage. I'm sure that other species would call their planets things like "Warmth", or "Homebase", or "Wet", based on what was important to them.

Planet "Bacon?"

 

[techs]

I've always understood our moon's proper name to be Luna, and our sun's name to be Sol.

Saul?

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Using that logic, the Earth should be called planet.

Why don't escalators, kleenex or, cokes have names?

 

[techs]

Why don't escalators, kleenex or, cokes have names?

They do. Escalator, kleenex and coke.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

They do. Escalator, kleenex and coke.

and moon.

 

[Train]

The name of our planet alludes to our agricultural heritage. I'm sure that other species would call their planets things like "Warmth", or "Homebase", or "Wet", based on what was important to them.

Isn't Earth a synonym for dirt? It seems we've been calling it Earth as referring to the ground beneath our feet since before we even knew it was a celestial body.

 

[JTsyo]

:thumbsup:



Unless they on their backs looking up at the sun\moon when they opened their eyes as a baby

Babies can't see far when they are born. Though the light from the sun would be bright but that would just cause them to shut their eyes. But when would you actually qualify as seeing earth? Is inside your room earth? grass and soil? Or would you have to see bare bedrock?

 

[techs]

"This is ceti alpha five!"

 

[JimmiG]

The name "The moon" dates back to before people realized there was evolution, other planets, moons, solar systems etc. That's why our solar system is called "The Solar Sysem"™, our moon is called Moon™, our sun is called Sun™ and our world is called The World™. Back when people believed in the Bible, they thought there was only one of each so no need to give them names.

 

[Meghan54]

The name "The moon" dates back to before people realized there was evolution, other planets, moons, solar systems etc. That's why our solar system is called "The Solar Sysem"™, our moon is called Moon™, our sun is called Sun™ and our world is called The World™. Back when people believed in the Bible, they thought there was only one of each so no need to give them names.

Nice writing, too bad it's so wrong on so many levels.

Our Universe operating as a non-geocentric system was postulated back before Christ, by Philolaus, a Phythagorean philosopher, ~390 BCE. Aristarchus of Samos postulated a heliocentric solar system ~270 BCE. And interestingly, the Earth was referred to as Earth, the Moon as Moon, and the Sun as....the Sun.

True, Copernicus was the first to fully predict our planets orbits around the sun in the 16th century, but his work built upon much earlier work that had been generally ignored. But the Sun, Moon, and Earth were already well in general use.

 

[techs]

Nice writing, too bad it's so wrong on so many levels.

Our Universe operating as a non-geocentric system was postulated back before Christ, by Philolaus, a Phythagorean philosopher, ~390 BCE. Aristarchus of Samos postulated a heliocentric solar system ~270 BCE. And interestingly, the Earth was referred to as Earth, the Moon as Moon, and the Sun as....the Sun.

True, Copernicus was the first to fully predict our planets orbits around the sun in the 16th century, but his work built upon much earlier work that had been generally ignored. But the Sun, Moon, and Earth were already well in general use.

I really want to post an intelligent design joke.

But I shall refrain.

 

[sdifox]

Capital letter... Moon...

The Moon is its name.

 

[Fayd]

We give names to all the planets. Jupiter has 64 moons, Mars has 2 moons, Saturn has 62 moons, Uranus has 27 moons, Neptune has 13 moons, and Earth has one moon. All of these planets have names for their moons from Phobos to Titan to Juliet. There are various unofficial names for our moon, but the official name of our moon is actually ‘moon’. Couldn’t we come up with a name? Lets have a contest to name our moon.

all the other extra-terrestrial bodies were named by the people who found them. those are individuals.

how do you give an official name to something that has been witnessed and named by EVERY SINGLE CULTURE THAT EVER EXISTED ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH?

 

[SKORPI0]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon

The English proper name for Earth's natural satellite is "the Moon".[9][10] The noun moon derives from moone (around 1380), which developed from mone (1135), which derives from Old English mōna (dating from before 725), which, like all Germanic language cognates, ultimately stems from Proto-Germanic *mǣnōn.[11]
The principal modern English adjective pertaining to the Moon is lunar, derived from the Latin Luna. Another less common adjective is selenic, derived from the Ancient Greek Selene (Σελήνη), from which the prefix "seleno-" (as in selenography) is derived.[12]

 

[sonambulo]

It's called 'CHA'

It even says so right on it.

 

[mizzou]

Its the only Moon in the universe, everything else are just moons