# Who named Earth?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-named-earth/5449>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [December 15, 1999, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-named-earth/5449 "1999-12-15T11:45:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![drewbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drewbert/32/15890_2.png) [@drewbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewbert)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 1999, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-named-earth/5449/21 "1999-12-17T20:48:00Z")

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> earth was named after it’s discoverer…JOE EARTH

What’s scary is, that somebody called up the planetarium and asked me who discovered the planets (she was tyring to finish her daughter’s homework, iirc) - after telling her that nobody identifyable discovered Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, and that Mssrs. Herchel, Adams, Leverrier, and Tombaugh were responsible for the outer three, she actually asked me who discovered the Earth.

Now I wish I had thought of “Joe Earth.”

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**Author:** ![metroshane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/aeb1de/32.png) [@metroshane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/metroshane)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 1999, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-named-earth/5449/22 "1999-12-17T21:41:00Z")

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wow good catch boris, i hadn’t realized. thanks

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**Author:** ![mr\_john](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@mr\_john](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mr_john)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 1999, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-named-earth/5449/23 "1999-12-17T23:31:00Z")

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That’s two to’s, too. you’re right metro Adam means the earth, in the soil sense.  
Dang ,finagle, just shut down the board AND put Cecil out of a job.From now on nobody ask any thing unless you already know the answer.Or at least have thoroughly researched it enough to know there is an answer,of course by then you will have found the answer, so what’s the point. And from now on the name of this thread is "What’s HIS problem ? "

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**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 1999, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-named-earth/5449/24 "1999-12-21T03:23:00Z")

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Incidentally, “adam” means “man” in Turkish. I’m not sure whether “man” in the sense of adult male, or in the sense of human.

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**Author:** ![Alphagene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Alphagene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alphagene)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 1999, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-named-earth/5449/25 "1999-12-21T04:00:00Z")

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> doesn’t the word Adam mean Earth in hebrew?

It means “a human being”, if this goy recalls correctly.

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