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Retrograde Orbits

Retrograde Orbits is an orbital configuration in which a satellite or celestial body revolves around its primary in the opposite direction to the primary's rotation, distinguished from prograde orbits by its negative orbital inclination relative to the equatorial plane.

213

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9.5K

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583

Authors

315

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2017–2026

64

Variants

Retrograde Orbit

Parents

Publications

213

Formation of ω Centauri from an ancient nucleated dwarf galaxy in the young Galactic disc

Kenji Bekki, K. C. Freeman · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2003 · 358 citations · Full text

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Sinking satellites and the heating of galaxy discs

Héctor Velázquez, S. D. M. White · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 1999 · 342 citations · Full text

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The biggest splash

Vasily Belokurov, Jason L. Sanders, Azadeh Fattahi et al. · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2020 · 286 citations · Full text

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Stable satellites around extrasolar giant planets

R. C. Domingos, O. C. Winter, T. Yokoyama · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2006 · 230 citations · Full text

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Long-Term Cycling of Kozai-Lidov Cycles: Extreme Eccentricities and Inclinations Excited by a Distant Eccentric Perturber

Boaz Katz, Subo Dong, Renu Malhotra · Physical Review Letters · 2011 · 229 citations · Full text

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Authors

583

  1. KA
    K. A. Innanen

    University of Calgary, Canada

    7 publications · 263 citations

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  2. DQ
    D. Queloz

    University of Geneva, Switzerland

    5 publications · 586 citations

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  3. DR
    D. R. Anderson

    Keele University, United Kingdom

    5 publications · 468 citations

    5

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  4. AC
    A. Collier Cameron

    University of St Andrews, United Kingdom

    4 publications · 455 citations

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  5. CH
    C. Hellier

    Keele University, United Kingdom

    4 publications · 455 citations

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Institutions

315

  1. California Institute of Technology

    Pasadena, United States

    11 h-index

    28 publications

    1.4K citations

  2. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    9 h-index

    24 publications

    2.4K citations

  3. University of Colorado Boulder

    Boulder, United States

    9 h-index

    14 publications

    375 citations

  4. Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian

    Cambridge, United States

    9 h-index

    28 publications

    2.3K citations

  5. University of Cambridge

    Cambridge, United Kingdom

    8 h-index

    11 publications

    1.1K citations

  6. Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)

    São Paulo, Brazil

    8 h-index

    15 publications

    969 citations

  7. University of Geneva

    Geneva, Switzerland

    8 h-index

    42 publications

    3.6K citations

  8. Australian National University

    Canberra, Australia

    7 h-index

    12 publications

    871 citations

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Venues

  1. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

    45 publications · 2.8K citations

    25

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  2. The Astrophysical Journal

    ApJ · 23 publications · 1.6K citations

    19

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  3. The Astronomical Journal

    AJ · 24 publications · 907 citations

    18

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  4. Astronomy and Astrophysics

    14 publications · 544 citations

    13

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  5. The Astrophysical Journal Letters

    11 publications · 605 citations

    11

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