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To: MtnClimber

Many people do not know that the Moon travels from WEST TO EAST as it goes around the Earth................


3 posted on 02/07/2022 12:11:24 PM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

Triton is the only moon in the SS that travels east to west. It is believed that triton was captured by Neptune.


19 posted on 02/07/2022 12:26:53 PM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. )
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To: Red Badger
"Many people do not know that the Moon travels from WEST TO EAST"

The Earth also rotates from west to east; anticlockwise if viewed from above the Earthly north pole. If you were viewing from above the solar north pole the Earth and moon also travel anticlockwise around the sun.

Neptune's moon, Triton, has a retrograde orbit opposite the planet's rotation around it's axis.

50 posted on 02/07/2022 1:53:05 PM PST by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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To: Red Badger

However!!!! The Earth spins faster than the moons orbit so it still appears to be moving east to west...


62 posted on 02/08/2022 6:35:58 AM PST by sit-rep ( )
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