Ep. 657: Astronomical Naming Schemes
Astronomy Cast
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The Moon Is the Dirt Under Our Feet
The original names for the planets that we use in the English language, they simply come basically from the Greek and Roman names for them. But what about names like the moon or the sun? Well, the earth. That is again just ancient language where I am not the kind of anthropologist that can explain these truly ancient words. Some stars whose names linguists think are so old that they go back to like pre distribution of humans all over the planet's time.
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