As in Fig. 7, but considering results obtained with a MW potential perturbed by a massive LMC (see details in Sect. 4.3), in the top panel is shown the time to the next or since the last pericentric passage, t_peri, versus the satellites’ orbital period, P, while in the bottom panel the satellites’ orbital phases, ϕ, versus the orbital eccentricity. We note that while some systems have a measured t_peri, they may not have a closed orbit and therefore have P = 0 (such as the LMC and its satellites).