Timeline for Moons with curlicue paths around our Sun?
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| Sep 4, 2023 at 19:48 | comment | added | Oscar Lanzi | +1. I'l add: Mars: orbital velocities about the planet are too small compared with the speed of the solar orbit. Earth: ditto. Need a giant far from the Sun/star for this phenomenon. | |
| Dec 22, 2020 at 17:22 | vote | accept | Connor Garcia♦ | ||
| Dec 18, 2020 at 2:53 | comment | added | uhoh | @MichaelSeifert will it then have convex/concave transitions at any orbital speed, or are there also distance constraints? If there are, are they closer or farther from the planet than for prograde moons? | |
| Dec 18, 2020 at 2:48 | comment | added | Michael Seifert | @uhoh: If a retrograde moon orbits its planet faster than the planet's orbital speed, its path will form a epitrochoid but with the "loops" pointed outwards instead of inwards. | |
| Dec 18, 2020 at 1:47 | comment | added | uhoh |
+1 Can retrograde orbits be addressed as well, at least in passing? I'm having a hard time visualizing what happens.
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| Dec 17, 2020 at 21:14 | comment | added | notovny | With Uranus, you can pretty much do the same calculation. When Uranus is near its solstices, the axis of the moons' orbits are pointing near the Sun, so you'll get loops, but they'll be near-perpendicular to Uranus' orbital plane. | |
| Dec 17, 2020 at 19:49 | history | answered | Michael Seifert | CC BY-SA 4.0 |