Quote:
Originally Posted by publiusr
Are you married or happy?
|
"Look, you have two choices. You can be lonely, bored, and single, or married. There ain't no happiness out there" -Chris Rock.
The orientation becomes even more meaningless when observing other star systems, because very very few of them are aligned similarly to ours, or two any other observed systems. Prograde versus retrograde is more accurately determined by relation to the rotation of the central body. A planet's orbit is described relative to the star's rotation, a moon is determined by the rotation of a planet (which means a hypothetical Venusian moon's retrograde orbit would be aligned with the prograde orbits of other planets' moons. How's that for a noodlebaker?).