What is the origin of the moon's name?
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The above answer was quite lengthy with added content.\n\nIt appears that "moon" is old english.\n\nThe "luna" part is Latin.  It was in Roman times, that the moon made people crazy, hence the word "lunatic".
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The Moon deity is a myth that originated in the middle east,one of their many gods before Muhammed came along.\n\nIn Persian mythology, Mah is literally and figuratively "the moon", queen of the night. Mah is also the Persian language name of a species of fish, which gives rise to the Persian language expression, az mah ta mahi, "from the moon to the moon", to mean "everything". That expression has its origin in Persian mythology, where the world is believed to sit on a rock, on the back of a bull, on a kamkam, on the back of the mah fish, on water, on wind, and on the veil of darkness.\n\nMuhammed didn't acknowledge any moon god in any of my readings of the Quran. Muhummad made up the Quran, another myth, to justify his sinful nature.\n\nHe did alot of bad things, like looting and plundering;\n\nhttp://www.faithfreedom.org/Articles/sina/looting.htm\n\nI don't think that honor should be given to Muhammed the "Child Molester"\n\nhttp://www.geocities.com/AntiJihad/mo_pedo.html
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It does have a name - Luna.
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Distance to the Moon\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n     \n An Astronomy Tid-Bit about the mean and extreme distances to the Moon\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n     \n   Note:  Distance is from center to center of orbiting bodies.\n             Kilometers divided by 1.6093 = miles.       \n\n      Many sources, such as beginning astronomy textbooks, yearbooks, and atlases, give the distance to the moon as 384,400 kilometers (km), and  0.055 as the flattening or eccentricity of the moon's elliptical orbit around the Earth.\n\n      The moon travels around Earth in an elliptical orbit, with the Earth at one of the two focuses (foci) of the ellipse.  As a result the distance to the moon varies by quite large amounts.  Its close (or perigee) distance is 384,400 x (1- 0.055) = 363,258 km.  Its far (or apogee) distance is 384,400 x (1+0.055) = 405,542 km.  BUT these values turn out to be the mean or average values.  See the table below for actual distances.\n\n      The actual (computed) distances over 10 centuries, from  1500 to 2500, have been calculated by the Belgian astronomer, Jean Meeus, to be as small as 356,371 km or as large as 406,720 km./1 These values differ from the MEAN values by 6,887 km and 1,178 km respectively\n\n      An excellent and easy-to-use source for the moon's position and distance is "Multiyear Interactive Computer Almanac" produced by the US Naval Observatory, Wash. DC and published by Willman-Bell, Inc., PO box 35025, Richmond, VA  232235.  The program called "MICA15" is on one CDRom for both IBM and MAC systems.  Included with the disk is an information and instruction book.\n\n      I used MICA15 to scan moon distances for the one  year, 2000, shown in TABLE 1.  The same source was used for the ten-year period, 1995 to 2005.  For this ten years,  the smallest distance (356,613.970 km) between Earth and Moon for this period occurred on November 4, 1998.  The largest occurred on March 14, 2002 when the moon was 406,706.975 km away.
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The moon is approx. 4.5 billion years old. It is believed to have been formed when a planet the size of Mars smashed into the Earth. Most of the debris fell back to Earth. Some of it stayed in orbit and formed the moon.\n\nInterestingly - the moon may have formed in a few thousand years. During that time, Earth would have been a ringed planet.
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Scientifics of "modern decades and times certainly did not"name the moons"But modern definition defines them as "Natural satellites of any planet".\nWhich are a matter of mass of orbs which orbit around whichever planet that has them.They are usually named after greek gods and or latin words usually mythological people or things that are deemed as "great"unique or noteworthy OR Great ancient likephilosophers and astonomers and mathmaticians like Copernicus,.ecetera
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If you want additional information you will have better luck looking up formation of the moon rather than "moon split."  \n\nHere is the seminal paper supporting this hypothesis with a robust computer model.\n\nhttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6WGF-45N4TKM-26&_coverDate=02%2F29%2F1996&_alid=491949780&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_qd=1&_cdi=6821&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=182356e6b7c7f44dd9327d9e5d126f17\n\nThe publisher insists on keeping even this 10 year old publication for sale only.  Still, you can glean a lot from the free abstract.\n\n(P.S. I knew Robin Canup in grad school.  This was her PhD project!)
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The lunar modules were named based upon the wishes of the crew.\n\nFor instance, on the Apollo 10 mission, Lunar Excursion Module (LEM) was named Snoopy, and on Apollo 11, it was named the Eagle ("The Eagle has landed.")\n\nA list of names bestowed upon the LEMs by their crews:\n\nThere were no Lunar Modules on Apollo flights 1, 7, and 8\nApollo 9: Spider\nApollo 10: Snoopy\nApollo 11: Eagle\nApollo 12: Intrepid\nApollo 13: Aquarius (never landed on the moon)\nApollo 14: Antares \nApollo 15: Falcon\nApollo 16: Orion \nApollo 17: Challenger (last Apollo mission)
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Moon in Greek translated as a noun is σελήνη, φεγγάρι \nMoon in Italian is luna.\nMoon in French is lune.
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The origin is in the Latin word libra, which could mean both balance scales (hence the symbol for the astrological sign Libra, which was named after a constellation that was thought to resemble scales) and also a pound weight, for which the full expression was libra pondo, the second word being the origin of our pound.
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The phases of the moon are caused by the relative positions of the earth, sun, and moon. The moon goes around the earth, on average, in 27 days 7 hours 43 minutes. \n\nThe sun always illuminates the half of the moon facing the sun (except during lunar eclipses, when the moon passes thru the earth's shadow). When the sun and moon are on opposite sides of the earth, the moon appears "full" to us, a bright, round disk. When the moon is between the earth and the sun, it appears dark, a "new" moon. In between, the moon's illuminated surface appears to grow (wax) to full, then decreases (wanes) to the next new moon. \n\nThe edge of the shadow (the terminator) is always curved, being an oblique view of a circle, giving the moon its familiar crescent shape. Because the "horns" of the moon at the ends of the crescent are always facing away from the setting or rising sun, they always point upward in the sky. It is fun to watch for paintings and pictures which show an "impossible moon" with the horns pointed downwards.
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The moon is known as the moon, but there are also other names given to it such as: Luna by the Romans and Selene and Artemis by the Greeks. It is also known as one of Earth's satellite. It is the second largest object in the sky and orbit 384,400km from the Earth. Its diametre is 3,476km and it has a mass of 7.35kg. As far as I know there are no other name for the earth's moon persay.
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Venus' moon\n\nVenus was once thought to possess a moon, named Neith after the chief goddess of Sais, Egypt (whose veil no mortal raised), first observed by Giovanni Domenico Cassini in 1672. German astronomers called the moon Kleinchen (literally "tiny"), and sporadic sightings by astronomers continued until 1892. These sightings have since been discredited, and are thought to have been either spurious internal reflections, mostly faint stars that happened to be in the right place at the right time, or maybe even asteroids passing by the planet. Venus is now known to be moonless.
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There were 12 tribes of Israel.  I believe the woman stands for the nation of Israel and that the baby is Jesus because Jesus was born an Israelite (or Jew... same thing).  I am not sure what the meaning of the sun and the moon are though.  One thing that is interesting are that the Sun, Moon, and Stars are the 3 main things we see in the heavens above.  There may be some connection.  Don't study too hard.  God gives revelation by prayer, and he may choose to not show you right away to keep you from getting prideful if you would know the answer.
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The moon was created when a planetesimal the size of mars smashed into the protoearth some 4,5 billion years ago. A portion of earths crust was cast out into an orbit around earth where if formed the moon. This is why the moon is lacking in heavier materials like iron while its composition is very similar to the rock that we find on Hawaii and Iceland. This theory also explains why the moon is almost completely void of volatiles like water, nitrogen and carbonaceous minerals.
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First, everything we knew about the Moon's surface came from looking at it with the naked eye.\n\nNext, we looked at the Moon with telescopes.\n\nThen we sent unmanned landers to the Moon to better study its surface\n\nFinally, men went to the Moon.\n\nGod is spelled B-I-G B-A-N-G\nPBrax@netscape.com
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Here is a quick page of info for ya. Hopes this helps.\n\nhttp://teacher.scholastic.com/researchtools/articlearchives/space/moon.htm