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who decided

so who decided that our planet was going to be called Earth and who named all the other planets and suns

it's always been something i've wondered about

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jules68 Fri 20/06/08 17:58

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terambulan
Fri 20/06/08
18:12

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Who_named_earth

The english ofcourse!

jules68
Fri 20/06/08
20:03

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thanks for that

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Clanad
Fri 20/06/08
20:56

... and here's an interesting link for the history of the names of th eother planets:
http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/question.php? number=372

jules68
Sat 21/06/08
09:09

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thanks so much for this info

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chakka35
Sat 21/06/08
11:13

The various peoples on what we call Earth have their own names for it.
The names of the other planets were decided by their inhabitants, of course. It would be impertinent for us to stick our oar in.

squarebear
Sat 21/06/08
12:43

I believe Uranus was originally going to be called George by its discoverer after King George but that was frowned upon.

I think George would be a great name for a planet. "Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and George" :-)

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