On Sunday, January 7, 2018 at 3:05:06 PM UTC, palsing wrote:
Gerald wrote... are just

"The new approach and insight in respect to the faster Venus and Mercury requires a really different perspective than the slower moving planets..."

That fact of the matter is, you don't *really* understand as much as you claim because you only refer to the motion of the inferior planets WRT to the Sun, and never WRT the background stars, where both inferior planets make the same loops against the stars as the superior planets that are so well documented.

Venus moves faster than the Earth while Mars moves slower so there are only the perspectives which account for the Earth's orbital motion as much as it does those planets.

http://www.popastro.com/images/plane...ary%202012.jpg

The actual loop of Venus around the Sun is accompanied by phases changes and size increases denoting the Earth is not central to the solar system but the transitional changes of the stars from evening to morning appearances neatly fits in with the same transitional appearances of Venus as it alternatively moves from left to right of the Sun and visa versa.

The direct/retrograde loops of the slower moving planets are an illusion while the direct/retrograde loops of faster moving planets are actual as demonstrated by many astrophotographers.

Maybe some citizen scientists in NASA or in some school or college will help get the partitioning of direct/retrogrades up and running otherwise they are delinquents.