What is the Name our Moon?

[spoon]

Originally posted by geoschmo:
Unfortunatly the source offers no support for his claim, other then the statement that the IAU designates it thus. But looking at the IAU website I can find no confirmation of this fact. I suppose they have some books somewhere, but nothing on their website I can find.

Except for this bit here: This Bit Here

[PvK]

Personally, I think astronomers are a step behind sci-fi writers on this one. Sol, Earth or Terra, and Luna are acceptable proper names. Having more than one name for the same thing is passable, too, especially with multiple Languages and cultures.

However, "the solar system" and "the moon" are just generic terms, and naturally refer to a particular one when the speaker happens to be in a solar system, or when on a planet with one moon, and not talking about space travel at the time. They don't cut it for proper names, though. Basic logic failure there. Yes, when defining a language based on how it's used, naturally those will pass that test. Kind of like a medieval peasant talking about "the river" because he never leaves his home village and never sees another village. Or someone talking about "the cat" meaning their cat.

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[geoschmo]

I prefer Solar System as a proper name refering to our system orbitting Sol, and stellar system as the generic form. But I guess I don't get the final say.

It's ironic I think that astronomers, the people most abundantly aware how insignificant our little place in the cosmos is, cling to such "terra-centric" nomenclature.

[Phoenix-D]

And Earth -isn't- a generic name? Terra and Sol are actually pretty genetic too, they just don't seem so since they were borrowed from other Languages..

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Originally posted by spoon:

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Originally posted by rdouglass:
I suggest (in honor of SEIV) that we re-name the moon (or the Moon, or Luna, whatever) to "Sol IIIA".................

Yes!!!

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seconded!

[TerranC]

Originally posted by Rollo:
... or Bob

No. Bob is the name of a shipset. A grand shipset. The grandest shipset. It shall never be the name of a simple moon such as the moon. It won't be naming the moon bob; at least not while I'm around.

As for the moon, we can always call it Daal.

[ January 28, 2004, 01:11: Message edited by: TerranC ]

[oleg]

Actually, more people use Luna than Moon.
Luna is the name in Spanish, Italian, Russian, Ukranian and many more Languages. All togeter, South America and Eastern Europe population exceed English language natives.

Of course, when humanity becomes one nice democracy, we will use the Chinese name. Anybody knows it ?

[Arkcon]

Is this thread necromancy or lunatic ravings? Pick one, since Halloween is coming up, vampires or werewolves.

[Atrocities]

According to all scientific information, and the cosmic foks, the name of the official name of the moon is LUNA. It was named by the Romans and that is the world wide official name for her. We just call her the moon.

[Rollo]

Holy necromancy, Batman!