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Aug 21, 2015 at 3:13 comment added Crumbs @Coomie - Some might prefer to look at it as the versatility or adaptability of the English language, but I definitely see your point. To the usage at hand - in a world in which the action you're describing is common-place, it would likely have some sort of acronym and/or slang associated with it, anyway. Depending on the scope (and tone) of your writing, you could have fun and coin something that may feel more appropriate. It could even be abstracted to have nothing at all to do with the moons, and simply use the moons as the frame of reference for that abstracted concept.
Aug 20, 2015 at 5:41 comment added Coomie This will probably be marked as correct, but I feel like this is an example of the inadequacy of the English language. We've adopted and applied meaning to foreign words to the point where we're changing the meaning of the original word.
Aug 20, 2015 at 5:40 comment added JEL Interlunar, as I know from years of well-spent youth reading all the science fiction I could lay my hands on, would be well-received by other such readers. It is the usual term in that genre of fiction for expressions such as the OP's example. A minor point is that 'interlunar' has currency in mainstream uses, designating the period between the old and the new moon.
Aug 20, 2015 at 3:45 history answered Crumbs CC BY-SA 3.0