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  • This whole saga brings into focus a few things. Most obviously, it really enhances the fact that our actual moon does not have a name at all. Mars’ moons Phobos and Deimos have names, all the planets have names, including exoplanets that only go by their automatically generated ones, and even the sun has a name. We don’t call the sun, “star,” so why is our moon just “moon?”

    In some ways, Moony McMoonface is too good a name for a quasi-moon, perhaps we name our moon Moony McMoonface, Moon for short. Problem solved.





























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