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Retrograde dates for 2009

These are the exact dates every planet from Mercury to Pluto turns retrograde and turns direct in 2009, in Universal Time. Mercury is retrograde from 11 January 2009 to 1 February 2009, and from 7 May 2009 to 31 May 2009, and from 7 September 2009 to 29 September 2009, and from 26 December 2009 to 15 January 2010.

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Mercury retrograde in 2009

Mercury is retrograde in 4 periods touching 2009.

Venus retrograde in 2009

Venus is retrograde in 1 period touching 2009.

Mars retrograde in 2009

Mars is retrograde in 1 period touching 2009.

Jupiter retrograde in 2009

Jupiter is retrograde in 1 period touching 2009.

Saturn retrograde in 2009

Saturn is retrograde in 1 period touching 2009.

Uranus retrograde in 2009

Uranus is retrograde in 1 period touching 2009.

Neptune retrograde in 2009

Neptune is retrograde in 1 period touching 2009.

Pluto retrograde in 2009

Pluto is retrograde in 1 period touching 2009.

What “retrograde” means here

A planet is retrograde when its ecliptic longitude, seen from the Earth, is decreasing: it appears to move backwards against the stars. A station is the moment it appears to stop before changing direction. The Sun and the Moon never turn retrograde. Each date above is a station computed to the minute.

What these dates are worth

Every time on this page is computed by the engine that casts the charts, not copied from a table. All times are Universal Time (UT), so a date can fall a day either side of your own clock: add your time zone's offset to get local time. The Moon is checked against NASA and JPL values and the planets against published station and ingress dates; the table of what Umbriel checks, and how close it comes is public. Umbriel is for reflection and self-understanding, not prediction.

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