How come our moon is just called the moon? The other planets have cool names for their moons.?
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THAT IS THE BEST QUESTION I'VE HEARD ON YAHOO ANSWERS.\n\nWhy have we waited until now to name the moon. Let's get that out of the way before we quit. here are my names:\n\nLunar Song\nHumoon\nFemoon\nMamoon\nGladys\nMoon\nEarthling\nLuna\nSelene\nArtemis\nEarthchild\nSuppysup
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Our moon is locked in what is known as a geo-synchronous orbit. For millions of years the angular momentum has stablized the moon to provide very little loss of energy between earth and moon. This does not account for the influences that the moon has upon our oceans though. (Tides) Our solar system has "moved about" for many millions of years to allow for efficient energy transfers between baryonic masses.  This is not unlike a person who sit's in a chair and move's about to become more comfortable.  Peace
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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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The Moon rotates at just the right speed so that it always keeps one face pointed toward the Earth. Almost all moons in the Solar System keep one face pointed toward their planet. \n\nThe moon rises in the east, and sets in the west. It moves from east to west, right? If you think about it, you should realize that much of the moon's apparent motion is due to the spin of the earth. The moon appears to go around the earth about once a day. And, you probably know that the moon actually takes about a month to go around the earth. That's where we get the word "month."\n\nWhy don't you perform a simple observation. Look at the moon, some night, and see where it is with respect to the stars (or with respect to the sun). You don't need to know the stars very well, but you probably want to ignore the planets (Venus, Jupiter, and Mars, mainly, as their motion complicates this observation). Night after night, the moon moves against the background of stars. See if you can tell which way the moon is moving, against the background of stars.\n\nAnother simple observation would be to keep track of when the moon rises (roughly) or sets from night to night. Does it rise later each night, or earlier, or what?\n\nYou will see that the moon moves west to east, fairly rapidly. \nWhich way does the earth spin? Well, the stars, sun, moon, and planets all seem to be moving east to west. So the earth is spinning in the opposite direction, west to east. Hey, the moon is also moving west to east, coincidence? Well, the earth is moving around the sun from west to east. In fact all nine of the planets are moving around the sun from west to east. And, all of the planets, except Uranus (which is lying on its side) and Venus (which is spinning slowly backward), are rotating from west to east. And most of the moons, of the various planets, are orbiting their planets from west to east. And most of the asteroids are orbiting the sun from west to east.\n\nIt's not a coincidence. The Solar System started out as a cloud of dust and gas, and it was rotating from west to east. That's why most of its parts are still rotating and orbiting from west to east.
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Tons!\n\nA moon is simply a large object that orbits a planet.\n\nThere are a total of 137 moons in our solar system. Here's the list of names and associated planets (see sources):
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Well it sounds like they all have their very own opinion. I found this wonderful site, it is trust worthy ... it's an on line encyclopedia and was just updated May 30th.\n    Jupiter has at least 63 natural satellites (also called moons!) \n    Saturn has a large number of moons, however no one will ever be certain of the precise number because the floating chunks of ice in Saturn's rings technically count as moons and it is difficult to draw a distinction between a large ring particle and a moon. One cool thing about Saturn is that it has the moon named Titan, which you have probably heard of because it is the only moon in our solar system that has a dense atmosphere. \n   If you decide to check out this site, just scroll down and click on the planet of your choice and it will take you to all the info on that planet, then click on natural satellites. Best of luck to you and search for the truth about these moons!
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I quote : "Two small moons have been discovered orbiting Pluto, bringing the planet's retinue of known satellites to three and leaving scientist to wonder how it could be. ...The moons are catalogued as S/2005 P1 and S/2005 P2 for now. Once they are confirmed, the discoverers will suggest names, to be approved by the International Astronomical Union."\n\nFrom: http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/051031_pluto_moons.html
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The magnetic poles have changed many times throughout earths history, and we still have the moon. Also, the moon has nothing to do with our magnetic poles. The Moon is kept in orbit by gravity, which is a not a property of our planets magnetic poles.
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Um... what are you asking here?  I think an answer would be that the planets revolve around the sun because the sun it so massive that it makes a small 'dent' in space-time, and the planets 'fall' towards the depression.  There are 9 planets in the solar system, and Earth is the third from the sun and the largest of the inner rocky - planets.  Many of the planets have satellites, called moons.  Earth's moon is called Luna which is (relative to the size of its planet) particularly large.  The planets also rotate on their axises (which is why we have, among other things, night and day).  Nearly all planets also have an atmosphere, a layer of gas that exists above the planet's surface, though only Earth has an atmosphere suitable for breathing.   Beyond Pluto, the last official planet, is a very large void followed by a large collection of planetary fragements (meteors), then another large void.  The solar system ends at a boundry called the heliopause, the outtermost reaches of the sun's solar winds (think of it as a wind made of radiation).  If you travel through the heliopause, you would experience an arguably extreme 'termination shock' as you enter an even larger void into intersteller space.  Okay, that's all I got.
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Earth also called as blue planet.Sorry i don't astrology name of the earth.
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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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The small size and weird, distant orbit makes it feel more or less like a stray double-moon. I'm not sure why it's considered a planet really - maybe it's the smaller body that rotates it, Charon, that makes us class it as a planet, maybe it's because we looked for a reason for the deviations in the planets orbits and prematurely labeled it planet. As for me, I do - mostly because Pluto is always mentioned as a planet.
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1.) The Earth and moon formed together at the birth of the solar system.\n\n2.) So-called "fission" theory; the moon just sort of randomly split off from the Earth over their history.\n\n3.) The Earth's gravity captured it as it passed through from somewhere else.\n\n& last, the theory most astronomers today support:\n\n4.) A large object collided with the Earth in its early times, sending debris flying into space, which would eventually coalesce to form the moon.
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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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What confuses you about the moon? Most planets have them. Ours is old, lifeless, has a high reflectivity, and rotates once for every revolution (so we always see the same side). Why are you confused?
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The Earth is a relatively poor planet so we can only AFFORD one moon. Some larger planets with a thriving interstellar economy can afford several large moons and a few spares. There is a planet in the Goografron galaxy that is so rich everyone has their own moon.  The space around the planet became so crowded that it blocked out their two suns, now their economy is collapsing.  Be thankful we just have one.
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Because it's to far away.  And it's still in orbit with the Earth.  When an object moves it doesn't want to stop.  Therefore the Moon stays with us.