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moving the way the rest of the neighborhood agreed to move, eons ago.
means motion or orbit in the same direction as the majority of a system's larger bodies, typically counterclockwise seen from above the sun's north pole.
from from latin progredi, to step forward — astronomers borrowed it to describe orbits and spins that go with the solar system's original spin instead of against it.
venus exceptionvenus spins retrograde, defying the whole neighborhood
uranus tiltrolls on its side yet still counts prograde
default statemost planets, moons, asteroids inherited prograde motion
origin diskcomes from the same spinning cloud that made the sun