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> the popular picture of Moon's orbit having loops is wrong in that sense. Do you mean the moon never moves 'backwards'?
by rocqua 7y ago
> the popular picture of Moon's orbit having loops is wrong in that sense.
Do you mean the moon never moves 'backwards'?
- betenoire 7y agohttps://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-c8ca8c109ecb9dacdaa8295c535d2bab.webp https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-c8ca8c109ecb9dacdaa829... Something like this
- jpindar 7y agoYep. Here's a discussion with diagrams and numbers: https://astronomy.stackexchange.com/questions/10979/moons-orbit-around-the-sun https://astronomy.stackexchange.com/questions/10979/moons-or...
- praptak 7y agoIt never goes backwards and it never "bends in" towards Sun.
- arnarbi 7y agoI think it's better to say it never "bends out" away from the sun, which is a different way to statue that it's orbit around the sun is convex.