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In astronomy, this is known as "retrograde motion" and is a tipoff that an object was once "accreted," or drawn in from elsewhere.
From Science Daily • May 14, 2024
The accreted material is usually made up of Hydrogen, but for older stars that lost their outer layer, it also can be Helium.
From Space Scoop • Jun. 8, 2023
This water sits in some of the state's shallowest and most remote aquifers, where it has accreted over thousands of years beneath chalk-white valleys.
From Salon • May 7, 2023
Over many years, as it grew into one of the city’s tent-pole institutions, the museum accreted some two dozen buildings in different historical styles, increasingly pieced together like a crazy quilt.
From New York Times • Apr. 25, 2023
The X-rays are plausibly generated by friction in the disk of gas and dust accreted around Cyg X-l from its supergiant companion.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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Believe It or Not: Cred
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Latin Love, Vol I: Credere: to believe (cred)
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