Im confused about how you determine wheter a moon, planet, etc is orbiting or rotating clockwise or counterclockwise. What point of reference do you use?
Whether something is rotating clockwise or counterclockwise depends on whether you are looking at it from above or below. Our point of reference is “above the north pole”: if you look down on the ecliptic plane from above the Earth’s north pole, most things in the solar system rotate counterclockwise.
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