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  2. Retrograde and prograde motion - Wikipedia

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    The orange moon is in a retrograde orbit. If formed in the gravity field of a planet as the planet is forming, a moon will orbit the planet in the same direction as the planet is rotating and is a regular moon. If an object is formed elsewhere and later captured into orbit by a planet's gravity, it can be captured into either a retrograde or ...

  3. Apparent retrograde motion - Wikipedia

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    Asteroids and Kuiper Belt objects (including Pluto) exhibit apparent retrograde motion. This motion is normal for the planets, and so is considered direct motion. However, since Earth completes its orbit in a shorter period of time than the planets outside its orbit, it periodically overtakes them, like a faster car on a multi-lane highway.

  4. Category:Moons with a retrograde orbit - Wikipedia

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  5. Distant retrograde orbit - Wikipedia

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    A distant retrograde orbit (DRO), as most commonly conceived, is a spacecraft orbit around a moon that is highly stable because of its interactions with two Lagrange points (L 1 and L 2) of the planetmoon system.

  6. 5 planets are about to be retrograde at the same time. What ...

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    A total of five planets are going retrograde between May and September: Mercury, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. "Retrograde" is a term used to describe when a planet's orbit appears to slow.

  7. Triton (moon) - Wikipedia

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    Triton is the largest natural satellite of the planet Neptune. It is the only moon of Neptune massive enough to be rounded under its own gravity and hosts a thin, hazy atmosphere. Triton orbits Neptune in a retrograde orbit—revolving in the opposite direction to the parent planet's rotation—the only large moon in the Solar System to do so.

  8. Capture of Triton - Wikipedia

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    Triton, the largest moon of the ice giant planet Neptune, is hypothesized to have been captured from heliocentric orbit. Triton is unusual as it is the only known large moon on a retrograde , highly- inclined orbit; that is, Triton orbits in the opposite direction Neptune rotates, and its orbit is not aligned with Neptune's equatorial plane.

  9. The Final Mercury Retrograde of 2023 Is Causing Chaos Into 2024

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    Mercury, the planet of communication, will retrograde in the sign of Capricorn from December 13, 2023, until January 1, 2024. ... The new moon cycle is an ideal period to start new projects, take ...