Who named Earth and why did they chose Earth as a name?
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I did, I won the rights to name it in a card game. Couldn't think of any other name.
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I would name the planet Bob.\n\nBob would be a great name for a planet for the following reasons:\n\nIt's short, and all schoolkids would be able to spell it.\n\nThere's no way to turn it into a stupid joke about your anus.\n\nIt's dyslexic friendly.\n\nIt sounds the same in every language.\n\nEveryone would like Bob, because Bob's your uncle!
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He was the first to come up with a good system of classifying all life on earth. His system, with variations, is still in wide use today. \n\nVery Important Person to scientists!
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missions took their name from the Ancient Greek God Apollo, the god of Solar Light and Sun.In addition, all astronomy terms are Greek.
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earth is obviously created "naturally", in my opinion, there is no such thing as god, rather, earth was created coincidentally.\n\nwhen the solar system is formed, little bits of the sun is trapped by its own gravity, because they were fluid, they formed spheres, this explains why planets are round and not triangular. earth was one of them, it was once small and in habitable, it is only by chance an asteroid nearly the size of earth than collided and fused with earth, readjusting its orbit, size and atmosphere, this also provided the optimal conditions for simple organisms to form out of chemical reactions between chemicals found in the sea together with other natural phenomena like lightnings.\n\ngod had no hand in this, rather, god was created by man
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The planet Mercury was named after a roman "god", he was the messenger of the gods. He's the one with wings on his feet and a helmet with wings. The element mercury was named after this planet. Mercury was known for speed and mobility, which is probably why the planet (which is the fastest around the sun) and the element (which has mobility compared to other elements) are named after him.
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You can probably search up all those questions on google or something. But I think Venus got it's name from the Roman/Greek God Venus.
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Earth is the only planet whose English name does not derive from Greek/Roman mythology. The name derives from Old English and Germanic. There are, of course, hundreds of other names for the planet in other languages. In Roman Mythology, the goddess of the Earth was Tellus - the fertile soil (Greek: Gaia, terra mater - Mother Earth).\nA man blinded by toxic waste which also enhanced his remaining senses fights crime as an acrobatic martial arts superhero.\nIt's no secret that Dallas considers Josh Howard, with his wingspan and athleticism, its best hope for one-on-one defensive success against the explosive D-Wade, Marc Stein writes.
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why don't u ask this question to our planet?it must give u the right answer,i asked it and it said its name was earth but u should ask it once more,in case it has changed its name from earth to something else..................like sun.
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The planets were originally named by the Romans after their gods' names. However, they only knew the planets until Saturn, which is the farthest planet from Earth that can be observed by the naked human eye. Because of that, Uranus has the name of the Greek god of sky Ουρανός (Ouranos), instead of its correspondent in the roman mythology, Caelus.
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God created Earth and it underwent some processes.\nGenerally people use the theory of Big Bang.\n\nBased on my observations, this type of question is most likely to get little response.\nWhy?\nBecause people do not know about how Earth was really created. So do I.
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Cornell University: Ask an Astronomer \nhttp://curious.astro.cornell.edu/question.php?number=451 \n\n"The true origin of the word Earth is shrouded in history and so any individual responsible for it cannot be found.\n\nThere are actually two schools of thought as to the origin of the word Earth. One was the already mentioned varitaion of the Germanic 'ertho'. The other is that it originated from the Indo-European "er", the verb form of which is 'ar', meaning 'to plough'.\n\nThe later, however, is not generally considered as likely due to the Germanic version contains more of the same letters and so indicates a natural progression. However, it would still be likely that the Germanic word would itself be derived from the Indo-European."\n\nIn a strictly technical sense, our planet is called "Earth" because the International Astronomical Union says so:\n\n"The official names of planets and their moons are governed by an organization called the International Astronomical Union (IAU)... The IAU is the internationally recognized authority for assigning names to celestial bodies and any surface features on them.\n\nThe IAU recognizes that astronomy is an old science and many of its names come from long-standing traditions and/or are founded in history. For many of the names of the objects in the solar system, this is especially so. Most of the objects in our solar system received names long ago based on Greek or Roman mythology. The IAU has therefore adopted this tradition in its rules for naming certain types\nof objects in the solar system... Earth is the only planet whose English name does not derive from Greek/Roman mythology. The name derives from Old English and Germanic. There are, of course, many other names for our planet in other languages."\n\nhttp://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/questions/question48.html\n\nThe word for 'Earth' is not the same in all of Earth's languages. Here are a few examples:\n\n"Afrikaans: aarde\n Danish: verden\n Finnish: maa\n French: mondiale\n German: Erde\n Indonesian: dunia\n Japanese: tsuchi, yochi, chi, a-su, daichi, koudo\n Russian: çåìë\n Swahili: kiwanja\n Swedish: mull"\n\nThe Straight Dope Archives: Do other languages call Earth "Earth"?\nhttp://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mearth.html\n\n"Some other names for 'Earth' are; \n\n Aztec: Coatlicue \n Chinese: Hou ji \n Danish: Jorden \n Dutch: Aarde \n Egyptian: Geb \n Estonian: Maa \n French: Terre \n German: Erde \n Greek: Gaea \n Hebrew: HaOlam \n Incan: Pachamama \n Italian: Terra \n Japanese: Chikyuu \n Latin: Terra \n Maltese: Dinja \n Maori: Papa \n Mayan: Bacabs \n Norse: Midgard \n Norwegian: Jorden \n Polish: Ziemia \n Portuguese: Terra \n Russian: Zemlya \n Serbo-Croatian: Zemlja \n Slovene: Zemlja \n Spanish: Tierra \n Sumerian: Enlil \n Icelandic: Jör<eth>in \n\nThe Earth has often been personified as a deity, often a goddess; Gaea and Mother Earth. In Norse mythology, Earth was the son of Nott and Annar."\n\nInternet Encyclopedia: Earth\nhttp://www.internet-encyclopedia.info/wiki.phtml?title=Earth\n\n"earth - O.E. eorðe 'ground, soil, dry land,' also used (along with middangeard) for 'the (material) world' (as opposed to the heavens or the underworld), from P.Gmc. *ertho (cf. O.N. jörð, M.Du. eerde, O.H.G. erda, Goth. airþa), from PIE base *er-. The earth considered as\na planet was so called from c.1400. Earthy in the fig. sense of 'coarse, unrefined' is from 1594. Earthworm first attested 1591.\nEarthwork is from 1633. Earthlight apparently coined 1833 by British astronomer John Herschel."\n\nOnline Etymology Dictionary\nhttp://www.etymonline.com/e1etym.htm\n\n"The name of our planet is the Earth. The name of our moon is the Moon. The name of our solar system is the Solar System.\n\nNotice that I capitalize them, because when used as names, they are
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i dont know. i think the earth was created by aliens. *wistles the x-files theme*
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in Genesis 1:1, in the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. it is God's nature not mother nature. isn't he wonderful!!
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AUSTRALIA\nThe name Australia is derived from the Latin australis, meaning southern. Legends of an "unknown southern land" (terra australis incognita) date back to the Roman times, and were commonplace in mediæval geography, but were not based on any actual knowledge of the continent. The Dutch adjectival form Australische ("Australian", in the sense of "southern") was used by Dutch officials in Batavia to refer to the newly discovered land to the south as early as 1638."\n\nASIA\n"The word Asia entered English via Latin from Ancient Greek, first attested in Herodotus, where it refers to Asia Minor, or for the purposes of the Persian Wars, to the Persian Empire as opposed to Greece and Egypt. Homer knows a Trojan ally named Asios, son of Hyrtacus, a ruler over several towns, and also describes a marsh as 461).\nThe Greek term was likely from Assuwa, a 14th century BC confederation of states in ancient Anatolia. Hittite assu- "good" is a likely element in that name. Elamites numeous in the east called themselves As, and at least one Aryan people on the central Eurasian steppes called themselves Asi. Alternatively, the ultimate etymology of the term may be from the Akkadian word asu, which means "to go out" or "to rise", referring to the direction of the sun at sunrise in the Middle East. Compare to this the suggestion for the etymology of Europe from Semitic erebu "to set". The motives for the names of Asia and Europe would thus mirror each other, much like the terms orient and occident (the names Anatolia and Levant likewise signify "sunrise"). This suggestion is widely quoted, but it suffers from the fact that Anatolia from an Akkadian or generally Semitic perspective does not lie in the east."\n\nAFRICA\n"The name Africa came into Western use through the Romans, who used the name Africa terra — "land of the Afri" (plural, or "Afer" singular) — for the northern part of the continent, as the province of Africa with its capital Carthage, corresponding to modern-day Tunisia.\nThe origin of Afer may either come from: the Phoenician `afar, dust; \nthe Afri, a tribe—possibly Berber—who dwelt in North Africa in the Carthage area; \nthe Greek word aphrike, meaning without cold (see also List of traditional Greek place names); \nor the Latin word aprica, meaning sunny. \nThe historian Leo Africanus (1495-1554) attributed the origin to the Greek word phrike (meaning "cold and horror"), combined with the negating prefix a-, so meaning a land free of cold and horror. But the change of sound from ph to f in Greek is datable to about the first century, so this cannot really be the origin of the name.\n\nEgypt was considered part of Asia by the ancients, and first assigned to Africa by the geographer Ptolemy (85 - 165 AD), who accepted Alexandria as Prime Meridian and made the isthmus of Suez and the Red Sea the boundary between Asia and Africa. As Europeans came to understand the real extent of the continent, the idea of Africa expanded with their knowledge\n\nEUROPE\n"In Greek mythology, Europa was a Phoenician princess who was abducted by Zeus in bull form and taken to the island of Crete, where she gave birth to Minos. For Homer, Europa was a mythological queen of Crete, not a geographical designation. Later Europa stood for mainland Greece and by 500 BC its meaning was extended to lands to the north."\n\nTHE AMERICAS:\n"The earliest known use of the name America for the continents of the Americas dates from 1507. It appears on a globe and a large map created by the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller in Saint-Dié-des-Vosges. An accompanying book, Cosmographiae Introductio, explains that the name was derived from the Latinized version of the explorer Amerigo Vespucci's name, Americus Vespucius, in its feminine form, America, as the other continents all have Latin feminine na
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In 1507, cartographer Martin Waldseemueller named the New World "America" after the Italian Amerigo Vespucci.  Amerigo navigated a couple of trips to the New World beginning 1499, but never actually founded a voyage himself.  It remains a large mystery why Waldseemueller chose Amerigo's first name as the choice for the name of the New World.  It may be that he wrote about the New World and was more widely-known for his writings, which led to the naming.  It may be that Amerigo could be easily translated into Latin, and began with "A" like many other foreign continents.  Regardless, he lives in fame to this day.
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because they were named by the greeks and romans. The Egyptians had names for them too, but since english is based on latin, we get most of our "stuff" from the Latin speaking Romans.