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Answer"The International Astronomical Union (IAU) is the major body recognized by astronomers worldwide (formed in 1919), and perhaps by other scientists, as the naming authority for astronomical bodies. In response to the need for unambiguous names for astronomical objects, it has created a number of systematic naming systems for bodies of various sorts."*

"Our own planet is usually named the Earth, or the equivalent in the language being spoken (for instance, two astronomers speaking French would call it la Terre). However, it is only recently in human history that it has been thought of as a planet. The Earth, when viewed as a planet, is sometimes also called by its Latin name Terra."**

"The name Earth originated from the 8th century Anglo-Saxon word erda, which means ground or soil. In Old English the word became eorthe, then erthe in Middle English.[106] Earth was first used as the name of the planet around 1400.

No one seems to know. Back in the 1400's, it was named earth, which means soil or land. It is from the Old Saxon, erta, the Dutch, aerde, and the German, erda.

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What planet is not named after a roman god or goddess?

Earth.


What was the name of the asteroid that hit earth?

They have not been named. There have been many of them over the millions of years.


Why was earth not named after god?

At the time, there was no humanity when Earth was made. When there was humanity, there was no religion. They had no such idea that God existed. We still also don't know that does really God exists or not.


Where did Earth get its name from?

The Earth was not really named after anyone. It has evolved over at least a thousand years and can be recognized in several old languages of Europe.The word is found in older forms of English, as well as an old form of Norse.The Norse word means "dirt" or "the ground," and carried a meaning of "a place that is not the sky or the heavens."The origin can be traced to the Anglo-Saxon word Erda (Erdaz), which means ground, soil or earth, the word changed to Eorthe or Erthe in Old English.The name Earth existed in Old Saxon as the word 'ertha', in Dutch as the word 'aerde' and in German as the word 'erda'.Earth is (beside Sedna) the only planet in the solar system, whose name is not derived from the Greek or Roman mythology.It is interesting to note that the Latin word for Earth, Terra, has made its way into current vocabulary with the phase "terra firma."


Are earthquakes named like hurricanes?

Normally an earthquake is first named by the year and then the place: The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake. Sometimes the year is followed by the name of the fault.none