How did the Earth get its name?

ach · **Joined:** Fri Oct 16, 2009 10:49 am **Posts:** 689

How did the Earth get its select?

aoniii · **Joined:** Fri Apr 03, 2009 12:55 am **Posts:** 1507

What a shame that none of the search engines online are working tonight, since it would have taken maybe 3 second to find the information.

Hmmm... trange, they all seem to be working now...
http://coolcosmo.ipac.caltech.edu/cosmic_kids/AskKids/earthname.shtml
http://www.astronomycafe.net/qadir/q827.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_in_culture

ovkooelon529 · **Joined:** Thu Apr 02, 2009 10:21 pm **Posts:** 1327

A long time ago in a land far far away.... when human first develop languages, some cave men went hunting and when one of them fall face first into the mud, he spat it out "Uggrrth!.." the name stuck ever since.

udavaxci · **Joined:** Fri Apr 03, 2009 12:26 am **Posts:** 1678

as in dirt ? land

it should be called planet water

Terra i the latin for land

depend on the languaje

until 500 year ajo most people had no idea it was a planet

xx_oquhoha_xx · **Joined:** Thu Apr 02, 2009 5:40 am **Posts:** 1322

I dont know.

juida · **Joined:** Fri Apr 03, 2009 12:31 am **Posts:** 1365

It is another name for Dirt (in english, dirt i Terre in french and terra in latin)

It i the natural thing to call the stuff you stand on "earth" and the stuff above you "sky"

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