Are the planet of solar system orbits co-planar ?


Question:
Are most of the planet in our solar system orbiting the sun in the same plane ?

If yes, any explanation to that ?

Answer:
Nope!
We consider Earth orbit "horizontal" (0 deg), here are the others:
Mercury:7.0,
Venus: 3.4
Earth: 0.0
Mars: 1.9
Jupiter: 1.3
Saturn: 2.5
Uranus: 0.8
Neptune: 1.8
Pluto:17.2 (sorry, Pluto is not anymore)
They are "more or less" in the same plane. The variations can come from slight disturbances during the formation of planets and/or past impacts from outer objects.
no.o..oooooooooooooooooooooooo...
yes they arer it is because of two things, all the matter in this galaxy is pretty much in a plane and even if things are a little out of the plane the gravity of the plane pulls them into the plane

if everyone is on one plane and two planets of near equal mass are each 15 degrees out of plane in either direction, that gravity of the plane will straigten them out into the plane
NOT ALL .
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