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Old June 17th 08, 12:35 AM posted to alt.astronomy.solar
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Default Stupid question about our moon?

Alexm wrote:
On Jun 11, 9:14 pm, SpreadTooThin wrote:
What is the name of our Moon?
I mean every single planet in our solar system with a moon has had its
moons named.
Why haven't we named our own moon?
It's like we've named the children of every one else's kids and forgot
to give our only child a name of its own!
I SAY LETS NAME OUR MOON!
I'm calling it by my name... Brian.
From here on in we shall call our moon Brian.
DIBS!


Let's name it after the person who first observed (i.e., discovered)
it. But, alas, we will never know who that was.


We do because all of the "discoveries" post date the telescope and there are
records.