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stars orbit the galaxy on average with the disk rotation), and a metal-poor, outer, retrograde (rotating against the disc) component. However, these findings have been challenged by other studies, arguing against such a duality. These studies demonstrate that the observational data can be explained without a duality, when employing an improved statistical analysis and accounting for measurement uncertainties.
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Venus to the Sun and atmospheric tides trying to spin Venus in a retrograde direction. In addition to maintaining this present day equilibrium, tides are also sufficient to account for evolution of Venus's rotation from a primordial fast prograde direction to its present-day slow retrograde rotation.
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in a retrograde orbit around the Sun hit the Earth with a faster relative speed than prograde meteoroids and tend to burn up in the atmosphere and are more likely to hit the side of the Earth facing away from the Sun (i.e. at night) whereas the prograde meteoroids have slower closing speeds and more
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to their host planet, so they have zero rotation relative to their host planet, but have the same type of rotation as their host planet relative to the Sun because they have prograde orbits around their host planet. That is, they all have prograde rotation relative to the Sun except those of Uranus.
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with a retrograde orbit and with a retrograde or zero rotation. The structure of the halo is the topic of an ongoing debate. Several studies have claimed to find a halo consisting of two distinct components. These studies find a "dual" halo, with an inner, more metal-rich, prograde component (i.e.
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of accreted planets ranging from 0 to 180 degrees with any direction as likely as any other with both prograde and retrograde spins equally probable. Therefore, prograde spin with small axial tilt, common for the solar system's terrestrial planets except for Venus, is not common for terrestrial
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passing through the object's centre. An object with an axial tilt up to 90 degrees is rotating in the same direction as its primary. An object with an axial tilt of exactly 90 degrees, has a perpendicular rotation that is neither prograde nor retrograde. An object with an axial tilt between 90
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is measured from the equator of the planet they orbit. An object with an inclination between 0 and 90 degrees is orbiting or revolving in the same direction as the primary is rotating. An object with an inclination of exactly 90 degrees has a perpendicular orbit that is neither prograde nor
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destined for low inclination orbits are usually launched in the prograde direction, since this minimizes the amount of propellant required to reach orbit by taking advantage of the Earth's rotation (an equatorial launch site is optimal for this effect). However, Israeli
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often result in large discrepancies. The asteroid spin vector catalog at Poznan
Observatory avoids use of the phrases "retrograde rotation" or "prograde rotation" as it depends which reference plane is meant and asteroid coordinates are usually given with respect to the
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within the cluster and this can lead to disks and their resulting planets having inclined or retrograde orbits around their stars. Retrograde motion may also result from gravitational interactions with other celestial bodies in the same system (See
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to some degree. The only satellite in the Solar System for which this effect is non-negligible is
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has parts rotating in opposite directions. This is the first known example of a counterrotating accretion disk. If this system forms planets, the inner planets will likely orbit in the opposite direction to the outer planets.
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is more normal motion in the same direction as the primary rotates. However, "retrograde" and "prograde" can also refer to an object other than the primary if so described. The direction of rotation is determined by an
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is 177°, which means it is rotating almost exactly in the opposite direction to its orbit. Uranus has an axial tilt of 97.77°, so its axis of rotation is approximately parallel with the plane of the Solar System.
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Retrograde motion, or retrogression, within the Earth's atmosphere is seen in weather systems whose motion is opposite the general regional direction of airflow, i.e. from east to west against the
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had orbits that were misaligned with the rotation axis of their parent stars, with six having backwards orbits. One proposed explanation is that hot
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with backward orbits called into question the theories about the formation of planetary systems. This can be explained by noting that stars and their planets do not form in isolation but in
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Carollo; et al. (2010). "Structure and Kinematics of the Stellar Halos and Thick Disks of the Milky Way Based on Calibration Stars from Sloan Digital Sky Survey DR7".
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If there is a collision, material could be ejected in any direction and coalesce into either prograde or retrograde moons, which may be the case for the moons of dwarf planet
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In the past, various alternative hypotheses have been proposed to explain Venus's retrograde rotation, such as collisions or it having originally formed that way.
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with the Sun, but they have not reached an equilibrium state like
Mercury and Venus because they are further out from the Sun where tidal forces are weaker. The
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of its orbit. Mercury's prograde rotation is slow enough that due to its eccentricity, its angular orbital velocity exceeds its angular rotational velocity near
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analyse the rotation of most asteroids. As of 2012, data is available for less than 200 asteroids and the different methods of determining the orientation of
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A galaxy called
Complex H, which was orbiting the Milky Way in a retrograde direction relative to the Milky Way's rotation, is colliding with the Milky Way.
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is an example of a galaxy that has a bulge that is rotating in the opposite direction to the rest of the disk, probably as a result of infalling material.
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have prograde orbits around their planets. Prograde satellites of Uranus orbit in the direction Uranus rotates, which is retrograde to the Sun. Nearly all
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satellites are launched in a westward, retrograde direction over the
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of the Solar System is complicated by perturbations from the planets. Every few hundred years this motion switches between prograde and retrograde.
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are orbiting in the same direction as the objects they are in resonance with, however a few retrograde asteroids have been found in resonance with
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Some asteroids with retrograde orbits may be burnt-out comets, but some may acquire their retrograde orbit due to gravitational interactions with
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that was discovered to be orbiting its star opposite to the direction the star is rotating. A second such planet was announced just a day later:
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degrees and 180 degrees is rotating in the opposite direction to its orbital direction. Regardless of inclination or axial tilt, the
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of Earth have been placed in a prograde orbit, because in this situation less propellant is required to reach the orbit.
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collides with or steals material from a cloud this can result in retrograde motion of a disk and the resulting planets.
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objects have prograde orbits around the Sun. The first Kuiper belt object discovered to have a retrograde orbit was
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of the Solar System are too massive and too far from the Sun for tidal forces to slow down their rotations.
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causing an asteroid to spin so fast that it breaks up. As of 2012, and where the rotation is known, all
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are tidally locked to each other. It is suspected that the Plutonian satellite system was created by a
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retrograde. An object with an inclination between 90 degrees and 180 degrees is in a retrograde orbit.
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when observed from above the Sun's north pole. Except for
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should be dominated by winds retrograde to its rotation.
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McBride, Neil; Bland, Philip A.; Gilmour, Iain (2004).
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are much more likely than asteroids to be retrograde.
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2738:Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
2350:R. Schoenrich; M. Asplund; L. Casagrande (2011).
2055:"Terrestrial Planet Formation at Home and Abroad"
1827:Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
346:. Venus's present slow retrograde rotation is in
3508:List of interstellar and circumstellar molecules
1118:. University of Arizona Press. pp. 485–86.
2479:M. S. Pawlowski, P. Kroupa, and K. S. de Boer,
1945:Dong Lai, Francois Foucart, Douglas N. C. Lin,
743:Stars and planetary systems tend to be born in
362:is not tidally locked because it has entered a
1442:"Nearby asteroid found orbiting Sun backwards"
1425:"On the Dynamics and Origin of Haumea's Moons"
1137:
1135:
1021:
1019:
709:. Simulations indicate that the atmosphere of
641:. All of these orbits are highly tilted, with
350:balance between gravitational tides trying to
2986:
2967:, Patrick Godon, Mario Livio, 22 October 1999
2955:, Duncan Forgan, David Kipping, 16 April 2013
2352:"On the alleged duality of the Galactic halo"
1930:"Tilting stars may explain backwards planets"
1657:"Distant object found orbiting Sun backwards"
1423:Matija Ćuk, Darin Ragozzine, David Nesvorný,
837:Stars with an orbit retrograde relative to a
801:of planets by neighboring stars is possible.
789:In one study more than half of all the known
8:
2685:"Some black holes make stronger jets of gas"
1797:Meteorites: A Journey Through Space and Time
1580:Morais, M. H. M.; Namouni, F. (2013-09-21).
890:Close-flybys and mergers of galaxies within
358:Despite being closer to the Sun than Venus,
2076:Astronomical and Astrophysical Transactions
1570:, May 2013, Volume 47, Issue 3, pp. 196–202
1093:. Cambridge University Press. p. 248.
3093:
2993:
2979:
2971:
2905:How large is the retrograde annual wobble?
1171:Strom, Robert G.; Sprague, Ann L. (2003).
529:rather than the asteroid's orbital plane.
326:during the formation of the Solar System.
3051:Exoplanet orbital and physical parameters
2943:
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1698:
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1599:
1435:
1433:
1155:
934:Artificial satellites in retrograde orbit
723:Artificial satellites in retrograde orbit
422:The orange moon is in a retrograde orbit.
3919:List of potentially habitable exoplanets
1889:Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets
992:
990:
751:can collide with or steal material from
223:and another reference frame such as the
27:Relative directions of orbit or rotation
4287:
2625:Merritt, D.; Milosavljević, M. (2005).
1219:"A Giant Impact Origin of Pluto-Charon"
1049:
1047:
986:
966:
582:has a retrograde orbit around the Sun.
338:to create thermally driven atmospheric
2914:, N. E. King, Duncan Carr Agnew, 1991.
1027:"NAM2010 at the University of Glasgow"
4227:Geodynamics of terrestrial exoplanets
2627:"Massive Black Hole Binary Evolution"
2463:"Backward star ain't from round here"
456:All retrograde satellites experience
7:
3909:Habitability of yellow dwarf systems
3899:Habitability of neutron star systems
812:tend to be the main determiner of a
477:regular planetary natural satellites
104:and most other objects, except many
4252:Sudarsky's gas giant classification
3879:Habitability of binary star systems
2039:Paul M. Sutter (December 9, 2022).
1794:Alex Bevan; John De Laeter (2002).
1091:An Introduction to the Solar System
845:are more likely to be found in the
178:. In 2010 the discovery of several
4237:Nexus for Exoplanet System Science
3894:Habitability of natural satellites
1175:Exploring Mercury: the iron planet
747:rather than forming in isolation.
25:
3904:Habitability of red dwarf systems
2521:The Astrophysical Journal Letters
1562:N. M. Gaftonyuk, N. N. Gorkavyi,
1467:The Astrophysical Journal Letters
997:Grossman, Lisa (13 August 2008).
302:when viewed from above the Sun's
198:Orbital and rotational parameters
4362:
4350:
4338:
4326:
4314:
4302:
4290:
4001:Stars with proto-planetary discs
3965:NASA Star and Exoplanet Database
3955:Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia
3443:Extraterrestrial sample curation
3074:
2769:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2010.16797.x
2496:. Universe Today. Archived from
2387:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2011.19003.x
1858:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2005.09403.x
1655:Hecht, Jeff (5 September 2008).
1334:Encyclopedia of the solar system
1054:Lisa Grossman (23 August 2011).
642:
279:north pole of any planet or moon
227:of the object's primary. In the
176:conservation of angular momentum
3914:Habitable zone for complex life
3632:
3352:Ultra-short period planet (USP)
3056:Methods of detecting exoplanets
2961:, Pierre-Alain Duc, 10 May 2012
2706:Atkinson, Nancy (1 June 2010).
1936:, 1 September 2010, Issue 2776.
551:Most known objects that are in
264:indicates whether the object's
211:indicates whether the object's
4095:Discovered exoplanets by year
2841:Astrophysics and Space Science
1821:Javaraiah, J. (12 July 2005).
1742:Astrophysics and Space Science
1469:, 749:L39 (5pp), 2012 April 20
828:
504:asteroids in retrograde orbits
334:, and also has a thick enough
159:Formation of celestial systems
1:
4222:Extrasolar planets in fiction
3869:Extraterrestrial liquid water
2712:The Christian Science Monitor
1201:"Pluto (minor planet 134340)"
48:in astronomy is, in general,
4242:Planets in globular clusters
3859:Circumstellar habitable zone
2918:Fernandez, Julio A. (1981).
2631:Living Reviews in Relativity
2492:Cain, Fraser (22 May 2003).
2118:Astronomy & Astrophysics
1347:Mason, John (22 July 1989).
939:Gravitomagnetic clock effect
414:Natural satellites and rings
4202:Exoplanet naming convention
3312:Planet/Brown dwarf boundary
2276:10.1088/0004-637X/712/1/692
2002:10.1088/0004-637X/709/1/159
1718:10.3847/2041-8205/827/2/L24
1481:Planetary and Space Science
1148:University of Arizona Press
669:The Sun's motion about the
136:from their planets, except
83:inertial frame of reference
4401:
3438:Extraterrestrial materials
3072:
2824:10.1051/0004-6361:20078460
2794:Astronomy and Astrophysics
2329:10.1088/0004-637X/746/1/34
2148:10.1051/0004-6361:20021404
1800:. UNSW Press. p. 31.
1440:Hecht, Jeff (1 May 2009).
949:Apparent retrograde motion
720:
701:of Earth and in the upper
695:atmospheric super-rotation
32:Apparent retrograde motion
29:
4265:Discoveries of exoplanets
4260:
3468:Interplanetary dust cloud
3006:
2574:The Astrophysical Journal
2441:10.1088/0004-637X/786/1/7
2411:The Astrophysical Journal
2299:The Astrophysical Journal
2246:The Astrophysical Journal
2096:10.1080/10556790108208191
1972:The Astrophysical Journal
1772:10.1007/s10509-014-1993-9
1687:The Astrophysical Journal
1501:10.1016/j.pss.2012.02.017
342:that create a retrograde
294:All eight planets in the
3970:Open Exoplanet Catalogue
3945:Nearby Habitable Systems
3831:Transit-timing variation
2067:Kravtsov, V. V. (2001).
1553:, Vol. 454, 10 July 2008
1179:. Springer. p. 37.
645:in the 100°–125° range.
479:in the Solar System are
364:3:2 spin–orbit resonance
96:, the orbits around the
4247:Small planet radius gap
3950:Exoplanet Data Explorer
3874:Galactic habitable zone
3448:Giant-impact hypothesis
2945:10.1093/mnras/197.2.265
2861:10.1023/A:1023332226388
2853:2003Ap&SS.284.1013K
2816:2008A&A...482..665G
2140:2002A&A...396..117K
2088:2001A&AT...20...89K
1764:2014Ap&SS.352..409D
1493:2012P&SS...73...70P
1336:. Academic Press. 2007.
1248:10.1126/science.1106818
922:supermassive black hole
905:Counter-rotating bulges
857:'s outer halo has many
546:satellites of asteroids
396:dwarf planet candidates
18:Prograde and retrograde
4207:Exoplanet phase curves
4045:Terrestrial candidates
3996:Multiplanetary systems
3960:NASA Exoplanet Archive
3643:Mean-motion resonances
3453:Gravitational collapse
3403:Circumstellar envelope
2898:10.1006/icar.1999.6170
829:Stars' galactic orbits
471:With the exception of
423:
42:
4082:Potentially habitable
3987:Exoplanetary systems
3929:Superhabitable planet
3688:F/Yellow-white dwarfs
3573:Sample-return mission
3473:Interplanetary medium
1619:10.1093/mnrasl/slt106
1568:Solar System Research
799:gravitational capture
728:Artificial satellites
721:Further information:
717:Artificial satellites
677:Planetary atmospheres
421:
260:A celestial object's
247:. The inclination of
207:A celestial object's
153:artificial satellites
151:Most low-inclination
40:
4217:Extragalactic planet
4197:Carl Sagan Institute
3478:Interplanetary space
3393:Circumplanetary disk
3066:Planet-hosting stars
1909:10.1029/2019JE006120
877:with the Milky Way.
825:planets in general.
797:are more common and
749:Protoplanetary disks
243:'s orbit around the
3558:Protoplanetary disk
3538:Planetary migration
3493:Interstellar medium
3272:Circumtriple planet
3267:Circumbinary planet
2936:1981MNRAS.197..265F
2890:1999Icar..141...13L
2760:2010MNRAS.406..975G
2662:10.12942/lrr-2005-8
2653:2005LRR.....8....8M
2596:1996ApJ...463L...9P
2543:2003ApJ...591L..33L
2433:2014ApJ...786....7S
2378:2011MNRAS.415.3807S
2321:2012ApJ...746...34B
2268:2010ApJ...712..692C
2208:10.1038/nature06460
2200:2007Natur.450.1020C
1994:2010ApJ...709..159A
1901:2020JGRE..12506120B
1849:2005MNRAS.362.1311J
1833:(2005): 1311–1318.
1709:2016ApJ...827L..24C
1610:2013MNRAS.436L..30M
1395:10.1038/nature01622
1387:2003Natur.423..264A
1304:10.1038/nature04548
1296:2006Natur.439..946S
1240:2005Sci...307..546C
916:Central black holes
818:protoplanetary disk
810:planetary formation
586:Kuiper belt objects
285:Solar System bodies
203:Orbital inclination
192:protoplanetary disk
3523:Nebular hypothesis
3498:Interstellar space
3483:Interstellar cloud
3463:Internal structure
3398:Circumstellar disc
2910:2012-09-20 at the
2687:. UPI. 1 June 2010
2644:astro-ph/0410364v2
2500:on August 19, 2008
1545:2016-03-04 at the
896:satellite galaxies
886:Satellite galaxies
814:terrestrial planet
458:tidal deceleration
424:
148:by their planets.
126:regular satellites
122:natural satellites
85:, such as distant
43:
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3854:Astrooceanography
3488:Interstellar dust
3360:
3359:
3236:Ultra-hot Neptune
3231:Ultra-hot Jupiter
3180:Eccentric Jupiter
3030:Planetary science
2043:. Universe Today.
1807:978-0-86840-490-5
1381:(6937): 264–267.
1290:(7079): 946–948.
1234:(5709): 546–550.
1186:978-1-85233-731-5
1125:978-0-8165-1208-9
1100:978-0-521-54620-1
859:globular clusters
767:of the protostar
687:from west to east
553:orbital resonance
408:massive collision
332:tidal dissipation
134:small and distant
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3553:Planet formation
3543:Planetary system
3433:Exozodiacal dust
3423:Disrupted planet
3347:Ultra-cool dwarf
3277:Disrupted planet
3262:Chthonian planet
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3698:Herbig Ae/Be
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3606:Interstellar
3548:Planetesimal
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