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How can the retrograde rotation of planets and orbits of moons be explained in a naturalistic way?​

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On Mercury, for example, the sun sometimes moves in retrograde. As Mercury speeds through its closest approach to the sun, its orbital speed overtakes its rotational speed. ... Most of the large moons orbit in the same direction that their planet spins.

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