Why do all the moons of other planets have names, and ours is just the moon?
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It does have a name - Luna.
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Your name is a hindi word for The Moon.\n\nThe other names with the same meaning are Ambarish, Bankim Chandra, Bipin Chandra, Chandra, Chandra Mohan, Chandrakanth, Chandini, Chandrika, Hema Chandra, Himansu, Indu, Jyotsna, Luna, Mayank, Nilesh, Poorna Chandra, Poornima, Pournami, Rajanikant, Rajaneesh, Rakesh, Salena, Selina, Shandra, Somadev, Somadhar, Sudhakar, Sudhamsu, Sudesh.Selene\n\n------------------------------------------------\nASTROLOGICAL DETAILS ABOUT THE NAME "MAYANK" -\n\n\nYour name is representative of high intellectual and spiritual development. Its bearers are people with a wide breadth of views. They are frequently charming, restless and impetuous. Decisiveness, will power and non-recognition of dogma are all part of their nature. They feel and perceive the world around them much deeper than others do. They hunger to help others and serve for humane purposes, but often do so with arrogance and egocentrism
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Of the inner, rocky, planets, Mercury and Venus have no moons, Earth has one, and Mars has two tiny little ones, called phobos and deimos (fear and hatred). Our moon is actually named Luna.
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When the light from the sun hits the moon, it is reflected to us which causes "Moonlight". This is the same light and source that allows us to see a bit of the shadows on the moon. \n\nThe suns and moons position in relation to one another is also what gives us the phases of the moon.  When the moon is directly opposite of the sun (with Earth not being directly in the line of sight) this gives us our full moon. \n\nIn short, there is only one type of light on the moon, the suns light hitting the moons surface.
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Just in case you wanted to know any more on the subject, the person above me copied his response directly from a website. The original article was written by Britt Scharringhausen. There are several more articles about similar subjects.\n\nAlso, Luna was the Latin name for the moon. The word 'lunacy' is derived from it. The Romans believed that the full moon sent people into a madness. That is how we got the modern concept of a werewolf.
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Twertyto's answer is the best! When I was just learning about astronomy I asked the same question. Someone told me a very simple answer that just might work for you:  A planet reflects light and a star creates it. That sounds simple enough for simpler times! But now welcome to the 21st century!!!\nBrown dwarfs are kind of the "animal" that bridges these two seemingly different objects. Astronomy is having a hard (but fun) time right now trying to decide exactly what a planet is- from the very large to the very small. Is an object 75 times the size of Jupiter a planet? 79 times? 81 times? No one seems to know. Do we call them planets or officially name them Brown Dwarfs. On the other side of the issue, is Pluto a planet? They just discovered a larger than Pluto object and several almost-the-size-of-Pluto objects out past Pluto's orbit. Are all of these planets? If Pluto's not a planet, but now has been discovered to have at least 3 moons (two new one's were just discovered recently), then what do we call it? \nThis has been a surprisingly tough answer for Astronomers as well, so not only is it a great question, but you- and everyone else- might have to stick around for a while for the difinitive answer!!!
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Given the number of stars in our galaxy alone, its highly probably that a star like our own sun exists with satellites like our earth orbiting it.  Of course if you're looking for a name of another planet with life on it you won't find that just yet.
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"Jove" is another name for Jupiter. In fact, it's the form that one uses to make the adjective. The satellites around Jupiter are called "Jovian moons."
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I don't know about the other 8 planets of our system because no life has been found yet but there are other galaxies and it seems arrogant to believe we are the only ones made with so many possible environments for others.
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"Earth" is the name the inhabitants of the third Solar planet call their world. This word is an ancient one, and is in English. All the logical paths that lead to a planet's name require the conclusion that no other planet could have this exact name.\n\n;-D Of course miracles happen every day! If some aliens like the name "Earth" then I won't stop them from calling their planet 'Earth!"
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The planets were originally named by the Romans after their gods' names. However, they only knew the planets until Saturn, which is the farthest planet from Earth that can be observed by the naked human eye. Because of that, Uranus has the name of the Greek god of sky Ουρανός (Ouranos), instead of its correspondent in the roman mythology, Caelus.
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Planets have moons. Damn!
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some asteriods have gravity.billions of years ago,some rocks gathetred together to form the planets.when two asteroids colide to one,small particals are blast out but still controlled by the gravity of the astroid.when millions of astroids form to one,the small particalls get more.soon planets are born.but every planet dont have moons yet instead they have rings even earth.the small particalls eventually will collide again to form moons.even saturns ring will eventually form moons and you can see no rings
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why is the sky called the sky?
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First, forget Sedna.  That is a body smaller than Pluto, and it's not the one most likely to be our 10th planet. The one discovered last year, and which is larger than Pluto, is 2003 UB313, commonly known as Xena (although that is not among the names secretly submitted to the IAU as genuine candidates if the thing becomes a planet).\n\nAll the other planets (excluding Earth) are named after Roman gods, with the exception of Uranus, named after a Greek god.  I think we should go Greek again this time ... and it's about time we had another female besides Venus.\n\nSo I propose 'Nyx' (primoridal Greek goddess of the night, and daughter of Chaos).  The Roman equivalent is 'Nox' (which by the way is where we get 'equinox', meaning "equal-night" ... I learned that on West Wing.)\n\nAnd for the moon, one of Nyx's many children:  Hemera ("day"), Moros ("fate" or "doom"), or one of the three fates (Clotho, Atropos, or Lachesis), and there are many other candidates ... she had lots of children, a few of them with her brother Erebus.  (By the way, Erebus would be another good name (as a constant companion) ... but who knows if we'll discover another moon someday.
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There are 47 known moons. You can answer you're own question by going here.\nhttp://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/object/index.cfm%3Ffobjectid%3D35229
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THere is an argument among astromoners as to whether classify the bodies beyond pluto as planets... consider that in the asteroid belt there are many objects orbiting the sun... do we call them all planets?\n\nCurrently there are officially only 9 planets:\nMercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto.