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The Earth's moon is called Luna. That is where we get the terms lunar eclipse, lunar landing, etc.     ANSWER:   The name of the moon is simply Moon. As ans â¦ wered above, the word Luna is latin for the word moon. Now that we no longer, or have never spoke Latin, we call it the moon.
In that sense, our planetâs âmoonâ only got that name because it was the first of such objects to be discovered by Earth-bound stargazers. Since then, many large objects have been discovered that orbit other planets, and since they behave in the same way as our lunar guardian, they are called âmoonsâ.