On: Technically, Earth Does Not Orbit Around the Sun (2014)

[rocqua]

> the popular picture of Moon's orbit having loops is wrong in that sense.

Do you mean the moon never moves 'backwards'?

[jpindar → rocqua]

Yep. Here's a discussion with diagrams and numbers: https://astronomy.stackexchange.com/questions/10979/moons-or...

[betenoire → rocqua]

https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-c8ca8c109ecb9dacdaa829...

Something like this

[praptak → rocqua]

It never goes backwards and it never "bends in" towards Sun.

[arnarbi → praptak]

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.