Moon

The moon is the earth's only natural moon (there are also some other minimaons floating in horseshoe-shaped orbits around the earth, which Cruithne most claims to be seen as a real moon) and is sometimes referred to by her Latin name Luna.

Most of the moons in the solar system are very small, but there are a number of large, planetary-like moons. Our moon is also part of that. Although there are moons that are even larger than our moon, the earth and the moon are labelled as double planets. This is because the moon is very large compared to the earth. Only with the dwarf planet Pluto and its moon Charon is the moon proportionally even larger.