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Re:Technically, Earth Does Not Orbit Around the Sun (2014) by rocqua on Saturday June 15, 2019 @07:49AM (#20189554)
> the popular picture of Moon's orbit having loops is wrong in that sense.

Do you mean the moon never moves 'backwards'?

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Re:Technically, Earth Does Not Orbit Around the Sun (2014) by jpindar on Saturday June 15, 2019 @12:03PM (#20190591)
Yep. Here's a discussion with diagrams and numbers: https://astronomy.stackexchange.com/questions/10979/moons-or...
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Re:Technically, Earth Does Not Orbit Around the Sun (2014) by betenoire on Saturday June 15, 2019 @11:38AM (#20190466)
https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-c8ca8c109ecb9dacdaa829...

Something like this

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Re:Technically, Earth Does Not Orbit Around the Sun (2014) by praptak on Saturday June 15, 2019 @02:24PM (#20191335)
It never goes backwards and it never "bends in" towards Sun.
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Re:Technically, Earth Does Not Orbit Around the Sun (2014) by arnarbi on Saturday June 15, 2019 @04:00PM (#20191787)
I think it's better to say it never "bends out" away from the sun, which is a different way to statue that it's orbit around the sun is convex.
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