Editing Selene (section)

== Namesakes ==
Selene is the Greek proper name for the [[Moon]],<ref>{{Cite web | url = https://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/Page/MOON/target | title = Planetary Names | website = planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov | accessdate = Jan 7, 2023}}</ref> and [[580 Selene]], a [[minor planet]] in the [[asteroid belt]], is also named after this goddess.<ref>{{cite book | title = Dictionary of Minor Planet Names – (580) Selene | last = Schmadel | first = Lutz D. | publisher = [[Springer Berlin Heidelberg]] | page = 160 | date = 2003 | isbn = 978-3-540-29925-7 | doi = 10.1007/978-3-540-29925-7_581 | chapter = (580) Selene}}</ref> Scientific study of the Moon, particularly lunar geology, is sometimes referred to as selenology, and its practitioners selenologists, to distinguish from Earth-based study.

The chemical element [[Selenium]] was named after Selene by [[Jöns Jacob Berzelius]], because of the element's similarity to the element [[tellurium]], named for the [[Earth]] ([[Tellus (mythology)|Tellus]]).<ref>{{cite journal |doi=10.1021/ed009p474 |title=The discovery of the elements. VI. Tellurium and selenium |date=1932 |last1=Weeks |first1=Mary Elvira |author-link1=Mary Elvira Weeks |journal=Journal of Chemical Education |volume=9 |issue=3 |page=474 |bibcode=1932JChEd...9..474W}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |title=Berzelius' Discovery of Selenium |first=Jan |last=Trofast |url=http://www.iupac.org/publications/ci/2011/3305/5_trofast.html |journal=Chemistry International |volume=33 |issue=5 |year=2011 |pages=16–19}} [http://www.iupac.org/publications/ci/2011/3305/sept11.pdf#page=18 PDF]</ref>

The second [[Japan]]ese [[Moon|lunar]] orbiter [[spacecraft]] following was named SELENE (Selenological and Engineering Explorer) after Selene, and was also known as [[The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter|Kaguya]] in Japan.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.redorbit.com/news/space/1066163/kaguya__another_chapter_for_the_lunar_saga/index.html | title=Kaguya – Another Chapter for the Lunar Saga | publisher=Red Orbit | date=September 14, 2007 | access-date=September 14, 2007 | archive-date=May 22, 2011 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110522040727/http://www.redorbit.com/news/space/1066163/kaguya__another_chapter_for_the_lunar_saga/index.html | url-status=dead }}</ref> [[HMS Selene (P254)]], a 1944 [[Great Britain|British]] submarine and [[Ghia Selene]], a concept car from the Ghia design studio from 1959, also bore her name.