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People that argue against our moon being called Luna, have not read much literature because, especially in fiction, our moon has been called Luna for a VERY long time. Most especially in Science Fiction, where the planets and moon names are used alot, Luna has been the name of our moon, it has been used across genres, authors and many, many decades.

So yeah, maybe it's not "official", but it's what people have called it in any form of literature for a very long time, unless the just referred to it as "The Moon"...IE The Moon is a Harsh Mistress etc. I think even Heinlein called it Luna a few times though (and he was a very early sci-fi writter along with Asimov.

Asimov btw, just called it "the moon", and went into quite a bit of depth on it's importance to human development and life on this planet at all.

I think most scientists generally have always used just "The Moon", but that does not mean it's the official name.
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