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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[]

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[]

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[]

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[]

Y[]

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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
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