When earth catches up to a slower-moving outer planet and passes it in its orbit, in the same way that a faster runner overtakes a slower runner in an outside lane, the outer planet.

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When earth catches up to a slower-moving outer planet and passes it in its orbit, in the same way that a faster runner overtakes a slower runner in an outside lane, the outer planet exhibits retrograde motion.

What is Retrograde motion?

Retrograde motion is the apparent change in movement of any planet in the sky. It is not real such that the planet doesn't make any movement physically in its orbit.

The planet just appears to be in a movement because the relative positions of that planet and our planet, Earth and how these two planets  move around the Sun.

Therefore, Retrograde motion is actually an illusion which is related to the movement of this Earth-based observer.

One familiar example occurs when an individual passes a car on a freeway, the car that passed appears to have moved backwards, relative to that individual.

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