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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.
We call them moons because they orbit planets the same way that the moon orbits around Earth. [Read: How the Moon Got There ]. The four biggest of Jupiter's 64 moons â the ones discovered by Galileo in 1610 â are named Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto. In Latin, our satellite's name is Luna..