who decided

[jules68]

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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[terambulan]

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

The english ofcourse!

[jules68]

thanks for that

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[Clanad]

... 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]

thanks so much for this info

xx

[chakka35]

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]

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" :-)