Who named our planet "Earth" and why did everyone accept it?
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Unfortunately, I think it's pretty impossible to say exactly who first named the planet 'Earth'. Actually, I really doubt one person really named it intentionally; rather it developed over time as part of the English language. Earth is Old English and German in origin, related to the Old Saxon 'ertha', the Dutch 'aerde', and the German 'erda'. Terra is a French and Latin word, and so isn't part of the 'Earth' etymology. I'm not really an expert on words and word origins, but it seems likely that people used Earth to mean 'land' and then it was the natural thing to refer to all the land and the planet. I tried to look up more specific details about the specific usage of the word over time, but even the Oxford English Dictionary (online) admits: \n\n"Men's notions of the shape and position of the earth have so greatly changed since Old Teutonic times, while the language of the older notions has long outlived them, that it is very difficult to arrange the senses and applications of the word in any historical order." \n\nSo, as with the names of the other planets that have been known throughout human history (Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn), it's difficult to say who first thought of the planet as Earth. The names were part of culture even before we really understood the significance of what planets are and where they are in space.
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The Enochians are listed as the source of the All,  Based on the Planets and their movement.  God has no problem with the stars and their movents.  They were given to those bright enought to accept and understand them.
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The planet Uranus wasn't named until about 1850 (it's not visible without a good telescope, so it was only discovered relatively recently), so the word "anus" came first.\n\nIt was named Uranus to be consistent with other planet names, which were all named for Roman gods (although Uranus is a Greek god).  Uranus was a roman god... and that use of the name long predated the word "Anus".\n\n'Anus' in the way we use it now was introduced in the 1400's or 1600's (depending on the dictionary) from the latin word for ring.  So although both came into use recently, the word anus as we use it is older than the planet name Uranus but not the god name Uranus.\n\nHope that answers your question.\n\nEDIT: An interesting note regarding pronunciation.  After looking into it, the older pronunciation is indeed URanus, but urANus became popular because it didn't sound like "urine".  But now the trend is going the other way because of the anus joke.  Both are listed in most dictionaries.  Here's a link regarding pronunciation: http://www.answers.com/topic/list-of-words-of-disputed-pronunciation
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The small size and weird, distant orbit makes it feel more or less like a stray double-moon. I'm not sure why it's considered a planet really - maybe it's the smaller body that rotates it, Charon, that makes us class it as a planet, maybe it's because we looked for a reason for the deviations in the planets orbits and prematurely labeled it planet. As for me, I do - mostly because Pluto is always mentioned as a planet.
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The International Astronomical Union (IAU) is officially in charge of assigning astronomical names and it is very sensitive to astronomical tradition.Its nomenclature is often derived from tradition and history (especially Greek/Roman mythology) rather than from what might today seem more sensible.
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I thought it was Xena, but:\nThe planet, with the current temporary (and unfortunate) name 2003UB313, was discovered in an ongoing survey at Palomar Observatory's Samuel Oschin telescope by astronomers Mike Brown (Caltech), Chad Trujillo (Gemini Observatory), and David Rabinowitz (Yale University). \n\nAbout the name: The real name of the new planet is currently in limbo while committees decide its fate. For those speculating that the name will be "Lila" based on the web site name I must warn you that that is really just a sentimental dad's early-morning-after-no-sleep naming of a web site for his (at the time) three week old daughter and one should not take it too seriously! In fact, the sentimental dad was so tired he even spelled his own daughter's name wrong (it is "Lilah"). The name  "Xena" is frequently heard associated with this planet; this name comes from an  internal cod name that we used before we publically announced the existence of the planet. Other code names have been "Santa" (2003 EL61), "Rudolph" (the moon of 2003 EL61), "Easterbunny" (2005 FY9) and "Flying Dutchman" (Sedna), and "Gabrielle" (the moon of 2003 UB313). We use these names internally simply because they are easier to say and remember than things like 2003 EL61 or S/2005 (2003 UB313) 1 . There is no chance whatsoever that these will become the permanent names of these objects! As soon as the committees make their decisions these objects will  get real names. When we first announced the existence of these objects we thought that the real names would be decided in days to weeks, not months to years so it never occured to us that these code names would last more than a few days. We hope the committees decide soon  so people can start getting used to the real more dignified names soon!
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earth to whatever ur name is!!!!!!!!
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ill put myself back, sorry everyone\n\nyep, we won't replace any planets names and burning and banning books is wrong\n\nsorry\n\n----\nit might have cost you points here, but there might be some best answers in your future to make up for it
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yes of course it matters to me .it belonged to our solar system for so long and now the scientists have thrown it away because it does not satisfy their definition of planets???\nit is very disheartening to say that our family now consists of 8 planets only.
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any one of those answers, but heres another, "Terrestrial life forms".  sence earth was called tarre by the ancients.  any life on any other world like IO, mooon of jupiter, would be called IOnians
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How did the world get its name? It just happens.
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I think you want Claudius Ptolemy, the Greek astronomer who lived in Alexandria Egypt in the second century.  His books Almagest and Tetrabiblios  were the authoritative works in astronomy  and astrology respectively, for centuries.\n\nHis astronomy placed Earth at the center of the universe, and used a complicated system of circles within circles to explain the motions of the planets. Nevertheless, it wasn't until Kepler (in the early 1600's) figured out that planets orbited the sun in elliptical orbits that anyone had a significantly more accurate way to calculate planetary positions.
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Earth isn't being destroyed, everyone knows that unless they are morons.  Earth doesn't care if we deplete the ozone- people do.  If the water rises, people's overpriced homes go away- poo poo.  Earth was fine before people crawled out of the water, and will be here after people go to the molten core.  Earth is just some Aluminum, Carbon, etc. (all names we make up).  Sad, but true.  If you seek comfort- read the Bible, that's what it is there for.
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No one knows.\n\nScientists keep discovering large round things going around the sun (which is one definition of a planet).  Up until a few years ago, the pretty much accepted answer was 9:\n\n Mercury\n Venus\n Earth\n Mars\n Jupiter\n Saturn\n Uranus\n Neptune\n  and Pluto.\n\nBut in 2003 astronomers Mike Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David Rabinowitz discovered another planet-sized body, WAY out beyond Pluto.  The official name of this 'planet' for now is just 2003UB313, which is an astronomical code for keeping track of new objects.  The astronomers submitted the discovery to the International Astronomical Union (IAU).  The IAU will not only pick a name for this new body, but they will also determine if it will be officially called a planet.  \n\n Since UB313 is bigger than Pluto, there is actually a chance that, if the IAU decides UB313 is not a planet, then Pluto will not be called a planet either.  By discovering a new 'planet,' we may have decreased the number of planets in our solar system from 9 to 8!\n\n But that's not the end of the story.  Mike Brown and the gang keep discovering other big things out there that could possibly be called planets.  Their web site (see the link below) lists three other large objects they have found that might someday be called planets.\n\n And THAT's not the end of the story, either. That's just our solar system.  Scientists are discovering planets that go around other stars quite often.  The second web site below is NASA's place for information about these extrasolar planets. As of 15 June there were 193 of them!
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The most recent planet discovered in our our solar system is named Cedna after the Inuit goddess of the sea. It is even smaller than Pluto.
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Earth is the third planet from the Sun. It is the largest of the solar system's terrestrial planets, and the only planetary body that modern science confirms as harboring life. Scientific evidence indicates that the planet formed around 4.57 billion (4.57×109) years ago, and shortly thereafter (4.533 billion years ago) acquired its single natural satellite, the Moon.
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Well, um, I've never read the book, but I believe Copernicus is the guy who said that Earth wasn't the center of the universe, the sun was, and everything revolves around it. Before, people belived that EARTH was the center of the universe, and everything was revolved around it.\n\nI suppose it could be thought as the "Copernican Revolution" because of his new idea, which no one really accepted until something else happened. \n\nSorry, my history knowledge is quite weak, but I hope this helped you out somehow. Unless that's a fictional novel you're reading..\n\nCan't help you on the second part though, google is a nice guess.