Luna or the Moon is the terrestrial moon. However several of the worlds described in science fiction works are not planets per se but the instead the terrestrial or Earth-like moons of true planets. Usually the planets these terrestrial moons orbit are Gas Giants, as in the case of Allen Steele's Coyote or Isaac Asimov's Erythro. One interesting exception is Ursulla K. LeGuin's Anarres, which orbits a terrestrial planet.
List of Terrestrial Moons[]
A[]
- Argolis Moon – “I, Borg,” Star Trek: The Next Generation Episode 23, Season 5, 5-11-1992
- Andor (icy moon orbiting a ringed gas giant which orbits Procyon VIII or Alpha Canis Minoris) - Star Trek
- Antar 4 (moon orbiting Gas Giant Antar - Star Wars
- Atielle (moon orbiting Sectilia) - Jennifer Foehner Wells's novel Fluency
C[]
- Coyote (moon orbiting Gas Giant 47 Ursau Majoris b) - Allen Steele's Coyote (novel)
D[]
- Dorumaa (terraformed moon orbiting Almas) - Star Wars
- Dxun (moon or sister planet of Onderon sharing the same atmosphere) - Star Wars
E[]
- Erythro (moon orbiting Megas) - Isaac Asimov's 1989, 1990 novel Nemesis
- Forest Moon of Endor (moon orbiting Gas Giant Endor)- Star Wars
H[]
- Huguinn - Wendy N. Wagner's novel An Oath of Dogs
K[]
- Konran (moon orbiting the Gas Giant Kilran) - James Gunn's novel Transcendental, p. 147
N[]
- Nivyesta (forested world orbiting Darien) - Michael Cobley's Humanity's Fire series
R[]
- Rinax - in the Talax Sector, Star Trek universe
S[]
- Sacrecour (orbits the Gas Giant Gobulus) - Jack McDevitt's novel Polaris
- Seni Major - Rachel Bach's novel Fortune's Pawn, p. 240
- Shora - Joan Slonczewski's novel A Door into Ocean
U[]
- Anarres (moon orbiting terrestrial planet Urras) - Ursulla K. Leguin's dystopian classic novel The Dispossessed
Y[]
- Yavin 4 (moon of Gas Giant Yavin) - Star Wars
- Yavin 8 (moon of Gas Giant Yavin) - Star Wars
- Yavin 13 (moon of Gas Giant Yavin) - Star Wars
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References[]
- D.N. Williams and R.F. Knacke. "Looking for Planetary Moons in the Spectra of Distant Jupiters." Astrobiology. Sept. 2004, Vol. 4, No. 3: 400-403