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What is the only large moon that circles its planet in the opposite direction to the planets rotation?

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What is the only large moon that circles its planet in the opposite direction to the planets rotation?

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It’s the only large moon in the solar system that circles its planet in a direction opposite to the planet’s rotation (a retrograde orbit), which suggests that it may once have been an independent object that Neptune captured.