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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 the same year that it was discovered, an 11-year-old girl from England suggested it be named Pluto after the Roman god of the dead. Pluto has three known moons. Its largest moon, named Charon (KER-Én), is about half the size of Pluto.