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== Real Life ==
* Moons.
** Jupiter's moons are named after the lovers and descendants of [[Greek Mythology|Zeus]].
** Saturn's moons are named after other elder gods (originally the Titans, but expanded to include Norse, Gallic, and Inuit gods).
** Uranus' moons are named after characters from [[Shakespeare|Shakespearean plays]] or ''[[The Rape of the Lock]]''.
** Neptune's moons are named after water spirits.
** Mars's two moons are named after the sons of Mars.
* Geographical features on any ball of rock or gas we can see have even more odd naming conventions: all craters on Mercury have to be named after dead artists. [[wikipedia:Planetary nomenclature|Thanks Wikipedia!]]
* Everything on Venus is named after famous women or female mythological figures. Except the Maxwell Montes, Alpha Regio, and Beta Regio, because those were named before the convention was established.
* The planets themselves are named after the Roman gods.
▲*** Of course, "Earth" is only the English language term for the planet; each language tends to prefer its own inevitably ancient term. If any international term exists, it is, as the first troper suggested, "Terra". It being, well, ''Earth'', it has never been discovered, and so has never been formally labelled.
* The dark zones of basaltic rock on the Moon are called Seas (Mare in latin) and are usually called Sea of <Emotion> or Sea of <Water-related term>. The landing spot for Apollo 11 was in the Sea of Tranquility (Mare Tranquillitatis). Others include Sea of Serenity, Sea of Crisis, Sea of Vapor, [[Shaped Like Itself|Sea of Moisture]], Sea of Clouds. The major craters on the Moon are named after famous Astronomers: Copernicus, Tycho...
* In a general sense, the International Astronomical Union gets together every so often to decide how surface features will be named once they are discovered. For example, there are currently no known surface features for Pluto, but once images from interplanetary spacecraft arrive, any feature found on the images will be named after underworld deities.
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