Timeline for Why do so many moons in the solar system orbit retrograde?
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| Jul 15 at 10:16 | comment | added | Walter | What are you trying to argue here? A moon orbiting a planet either way orbits the Sun in the same sense as its planet. Are you talking about capture? | |
| Jul 8 at 2:05 | history | edited | Woody | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 6 at 20:10 | comment | added | notovny | You're assuming coplanar, circular orbits here. Even a tiny bit of relative inclination and very slightly different eccentricity can result in a relative velocity in the Jovian frame in basically any direction on approach. | |
| Jul 6 at 19:29 | history | answered | Woody | CC BY-SA 4.0 |