Quote Originally Posted by Chronos View Post
My reason for using the word "Luna" rather than "The Moon" was twofold: Part of it was for greater specificity, but part of it is that, despite being the origin of the name of the category, our Moon fits very poorly into the category of natural satellites of non-star celestial objects. Not only is Earth more like Luna than it is like Neptune, but Luna is more like Earth than it is like Ganymede, Titan, or Phobos.

And yes, I'm aware that "Luna" is just "Moon", in a different language. That's unfortunately unavoidable: There's no name for that body that's completely divorced, in all languages, from the category of other moons.
However, every scientific body I'm aware of actually recommends using "The Moon" in English, not Luna.