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Every human language has its own word for the Earth's Moon, and these words are the ones normally used in astronomical contexts.However, a number of fanciful or mythological names for the Moon have been used in the context of astronomy (an even larger number of lunar epithets have been used in non-astronomical contexts).
Name based on the brightest galaxy in the group when that name is commonly used for identification (e.g. the M81 Group); this is only applicable to groups of galaxies within approximately 50 Mpc; The most commonly-used catalog number (e.g. Abell 3266) Note that group and cluster names are proper nouns.
Following this pattern, several hypothetical bodies were given names: Vulcan for a planet within the orbit of Mercury; Phaeton for a planet between Mars and Jupiter that was believed to be the precursor of the asteroids; Themis for a moon of Saturn; and Persephone, and several other names, for a trans-Plutonian planet.
Two of the new moons orbit in the same direction as the planet rotates, which requires a name that ends in -a; the other three travel in the opposite direction and will be given names that end in ...
The name was originally Arabic: الذيل aḏ-ḏayl (the train, lit. 'the tail'). /əˈdɪl/ Taurus: ε Tauri Aa1: Ain: The name is originally from Arabic: عين ʿayn ('eye') and was reviewed and adopted by the Working Group on Star Names. [5] /ˈeɪn/ Sagittarius: ν 1 Sagittarii A: Ainalrami: From Arabic: عين الرامي ʿayn ar ...
The full moon has a different name depending on when it occurs each month, since Native Americans marked their calendars by the moons. How the 'supermoon' got its name -- along with 27 other weird ...
For instance, for a large portion of names ending in -s, the oblique stem and therefore the English adjective changes the -s to a -d, -t, or -r, as in Mars–Martian, Pallas–Palladian and Ceres–Cererian; [note 1] occasionally an -n has been lost historically from the nominative form, and reappears in the oblique and therefore in the English ...
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