Moon

A moon (also known as a natural satellite) was an astronomical object found in orbit around a planet.

You may be looking for Earth's moon or Doctor Moon.

Some moons, like Voga, were planetoids brought into orbit around a planet by the planet's gravity, while others were the result of a collision between objects during the formation of a solar system. (TV: Revenge of the Cybermen ^[+]Loading...["Revenge of the Cybermen (TV story)"])

Mutter's Spiral[[edit] | [edit source]]

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By the year 200,000, Earth was orbited by five moons. (TV: The Long Game ^[+]Loading...["The Long Game (TV story)"]) Earth's first Moon was in fact an alien egg and hatched in 2049, being replaced immediately by another egg the hatchling laid. (TV: Kill the Moon ^[+]Loading...["Kill the Moon (TV story)"]) By the time of the Fourth Great and Bountiful Human Empire, the Earth had four additional moons. (TV: The Long Game ^[+]Loading...["The Long Game (TV story)"], Bad Wolf ^[+]Loading...["Bad Wolf (TV story)"])

The Third Doctor sang of Martian moons, (TV: Inferno ^[+]Loading...["Inferno (TV story)"]) of which there were two: Deimos and Phobos. (AUDIO: Deimos ^[+]Loading...["Deimos (audio story)"], Phobos ^[+]Loading...["Phobos (audio story)"])

On 7 January 1610, Galileo Galilei wrote in a letter that he had spotted three of Jupiter's moons. A few months later, he discovered a fourth. The final moon, the golden planet of Voga, would not be discovered by humans until the 29th century. (PROSE: Time Traveller's Diary ^[+]Loading...["Time Traveller's Diary (novel)"])

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Across its history, Gallifrey had at least three moons. An unnamed satellite, the heavily industrialised Pazithi Gallifreya (COMIC: Agent Provocateur ^[+]Loading...["Agent Provocateur (comic story)"]) and the lost moon, Botoya. Built into the latter was a device that could rewrite history on a grand scale, which was why the Doctor suspected the ancients of Gallifrey had hidden the moon. Botoya subsequently became a legend in Gallifreyan culture, one not widely believed in. (AUDIO: The End of the Beginning ^[+]Loading...["The End of the Beginning (audio story)"])

By some accounts of the Doctor and Susan's escape from Gallifrey, the First Doctor had stolen one of Gallifrey's moons, (TV: The Magician's Apprentice ^[+]Loading...["The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)"], PROSE: A Brief History of Time Lords ^[+]Loading...["A Brief History of Time Lords (novel)"]) though the Twelfth Doctor defended to Clara Oswald that he'd only lost the moon. (TV: Hell Bent ^[+]Loading...["Hell Bent (TV story)"])

Other moons[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Eleventh Doctor once offered to take Amy Pond and Rory Williams to a moon that was actually made of honey for their honeymoon. He later corrected himself, saying it wasn't made of actual honey, and it wasn't actually a moon. It was in fact technically alive "and a bit carnivorous, but there are some lovely views." (TV: A Christmas Carol ^[+]Loading...["A Christmas Carol (TV story)"])

The Shadow Proclamation tended to the matter of "suicide moons". (TV: The Magician's Apprentice ^[+]Loading...["The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)"])

Kepzyr, a moon of Zorbos, was well populated with trees before it was heavily deforested in the 39th century. (PROSE: Frank Reade, Jr.'s Electric Time Canoe ^[+]Loading...["Frank Reade, Jr.'s Electric Time Canoe (short story)"])

Poosh was either a famously lost moon or a planet that had famously lost one of its moons. (TV: Midnight ^[+]Loading...["Midnight (TV story)"]) Part of the New Dalek Empire's stolen planets, (TV: The Stolen Earth ^[+]Loading...["The Stolen Earth (TV story)"]) the celestial body was returned to its rightful place in the cosmos by Donna Noble. (TV: Journey's End ^[+]Loading...["Journey's End (TV story)"])

Skaro had at least three moons Omega Mysterium, Flidor and Falkus, (AUDIO: Davros ^[+]Loading...["Davros (audio story)"], Innocence ^[+]Loading...["Innocence (audio story)"], Purity ^[+]Loading...["Purity (audio story)"]) the latter of which hosted a Dalek facility where they imprisoned an alternate version of Davros during the Last Great Time War. (AUDIO: Restoration of the Daleks ^[+]Loading...["Restoration of the Daleks (audio story)"]) In the Dalek Dome in 2323, the Daleks of the Golden City Zone sought to exit their simulation for the real world. To compute the calculations needed for such a transit, the Golden Emperor ordered the creation of a Mathematicians' Moon entirely populated by Quadruple-Brained Algebraists whose calculations sustained the quantum-powered reality gates. The Fourteenth Doctor managed to destroy this moon, ending the 2323 Dalek invasion of Earth. (COMIC: Liberation of the Daleks ^[+]Loading...["Liberation of the Daleks (comic story)","Liberation of the Daleks"])

During the Time War, the Eternity Circle harvested three moons in the Tantalus Spiral as the foundation for their construction of a large scale version of the Temporal Cannon. (PROSE: Engines of War ^[+]Loading...["Engines of War (novel)"])

Villengard was orbited by a partially-destroyed moon. (TV: Twice Upon a Time ^[+]Loading...["Twice Upon a Time (TV story)"])

The Library was orbited by the Doctor Moon, a sentient maintenance hub that tended to the mind of Charlotte Lux that ran the Library. (TV: Silence in the Library ^[+]Loading...["Silence in the Library (TV story)"])

Vulpana had four moons, (AUDIO: The Moons of Vulpana ^[+]Loading...["The Moons of Vulpana (audio story)"]) Domusalba being an inhabited one, politically separate from the planet it orbited. (COMIC: Hill of Beans ^[+]Loading...["Hill of Beans (comic story)"])

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"Moons of madness" was a curse sworn by the Captain. (TV: The Pirate Planet ^[+]Loading...["The Pirate Planet (TV story)"])

"By the moons" was an oath sworn by the Ice Warriors and those who did them honour, such as Clara Oswald and the Twelfth Doctor. (TV: Cold War ^[+]Loading...["Cold War (TV story)"], Empress of Mars ^[+]Loading...["Empress of Mars (TV story)"])