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A prograde capture scenario featuring a one moon-mass planetoid appears to explain a number of outstanding features of the Earth-Moon system and a retrograde capture scenario appears to explain a number of the outstanding features of planet Venus. A simple question is: COULD THESE SCENARIOS BE REVERSED? The answer is YES! BUT the probabilities of occurrence would be different for the two opposite scenarios.
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Malcuit, R. (2015). A Retrograde Gravitational Capture Model for the Earth-Moon System. In: The Twin Sister Planets Venus and Earth. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11388-3_7
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