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To: SunkenCiv

“The orbit is retrograde”

Likely to have been at least a few collisions.


2 posted on 03/06/2021 4:03:23 PM PST by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: Larry Lucido

Yeah, retrograde orbits are generally considered diagnostic of capture. A bunch of Jupiter’s minor moons / moonlets are in retrograde, for example.


7 posted on 03/06/2021 4:10:44 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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