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by Stevie on October 23rd, 2009
I'm going to treat this as an almost "Who Wants to be a Millionaire" question and try to answer it off the top of my head. I think the moon is technically considered a satellite and not in the technological sense, obviously. This would make the name of our moon "the moon." However, people have attributed names to describe similar items. Band-Aid for instance, has been used to describe almost any type of adhesive bandage. Or Xerox as a verb to describe making copies even if it's not on a copy machine made by Xerox. This would mean that technically "Phobos" and "Deimos" are satellites, but with our tendency to refer to other things by a name it's easy to see how people would call them moons, especially if they experience the same phases as our moon does. +3 for making me ponder.
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You're reading The planet Mars has two tiny moons, "Phobos" and "Deimos." The Earth has only one moon, but our moon has NO NAME. Why not? If you could name our Moon, what name would you assign to it? And why would you choose the name that you gave to it?
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Thanks for the points you gave my question, and here are 6 for your answer.
by Anonymous on October 23rd, 2009