What is the definition of prograde rotation?

Answer 1

Retrograde motion is the opposite of prograde motion.

So, retrograde motion is where a body is moving in the direction opposite to the movement of something else. Not to be confused with apparent retrograde motion. [See related link]

If you were on a child's roundabout and your friend was running alongside in the same direction you were spinning, that would be prograde. If however, your friend turned around and ran the opposite way, that would be retrograde motion. [See related link for a pictorial]

In astronomy:

• The Earth and four other planets rotate in the same direction as the Sun does; Prograde.
• Venus and Uranus rotate in the opposite direction; retrograde.

Do not confuse this with retrograde revolution, as no planet revolves in the opposite direction to the Sun.

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Answer 2

In astronomy, it means the rotation of the primary object.

In our Solar System, the Sun is our primary object and it rotates, as viewed from the celestial north pole, in an anti clockwise motion.

Any object that rotates in a clockwise motion when viewed from the same point, is classed as in retrograde motion.

Answer 3

Prograde rotation refers to the rotation of a celestial body in the same direction as its orbit around another body. In the context of planets, this means that the planet rotates in the same direction as it orbits the sun.

Answer 4

Prograde rotation is the counterclockwise spin of a planet or moon as seen from above the planet's North Pole; rotation in the same direction as the sun's rotation.

Answer 5

the difference in prograde and retrograde rotation is prograde dis counter clockwise and retrograde is clockwise

Answer 6

Prograde Motion is the opposite of Retrograde Motion.

They both "occur" by the discoveries made by Nighttime Observators.