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Originally Posted by pumpkinpie
Astronomy/space writer tend to use the term "solar system" to describe these systems of extrasolar planets. But most of the discovering astronomers (Marcy, Butler, others) use "planetary systems," not solar or stellar. Occasionally I'll see one using solar system, but usually it's planetary.
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I was always of the opinion that the name of our star was
Sol, therefore the name of our "planetary system" would be
Solar System.
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Some people insist that our chunk o' cheese in the sky is the only one that should rightly be called a moon, everything else around other planets are merely natural satellites and don't deserve the name moon.
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emphasis mine...
That would be
me.
I imagine as long as the other planets satellites are called
moons (lower case "m"), and the Earth's satellite is called
Moon, (uppercase "M")...well that would be alright...but that's as far as I'll "go".