Are the planets in our solar system all on the same plane?
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The plane formed by the Earth's orbit is called the ecliptic. While most of the planets' orbits are close to this plane, Mercury and Pluto's orbits differ by several degrees.
No they are not. As a matter of fact, all of them except for Pluto share a relatively similar orbit. Pluto though, has an orbit that is about 17 degrees off plane with the rest of the planets.
Mostly yes. I think that the outermost (Pluto) is not and may be because it was captured by our sun and not created from the progenitor dust cloud. I disavow all knowledge of more recent discoveries of additional planets after Pluto.
he is not asking about the degree of orbit, but if all the planets are on the same "horizontal" plane.
i would think so because of the way rings are formed around planets.
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Pretty much all except Pluto.
i believe all of them are except pluto or neptune
Yes
Nope, and that's why Pluto is sometimes closer than Neptune.
Pretty much yes.
With respect to solar system, even Einstein's theory suggests that they are on a space-time fabric which you can imagine of being a streched sheet of cloth on which sun sits in the middle (which creates depression in the fabric because of mass) and then planets in their respective orbits, which creates their own depressions due to mass. I am not talking about galaxy. I am just talking about solar system. The plane of solar system is slightly different than the plan of the milkyway galaxy. I think its tilted by 62 degree or somethin...i am not sure. But ofcourse we are talking about plane of objects within solar system so..yes, objects could be thought of sitting in a plane within the solar system.
To extend more on this topic...Einstein suggested that a heavy object in space (due to higher mass) creates a space-time worp around it and this had been proved because even light bends slightly if it were to pass near another huge object (like a huge planet or star).
Just imagine you are standing on a trampoline in the middle, and if someone were to drop some water near where you are standing...on the trampoline, the water would follow the depression on the trampoline (created due to your weight) and end up near your feet. Similarly, Light is thought to be following the space-time fabric.
Roughly spoken, yes. That plane is the ecliptic going through the Zodiac. Better observed: no. There is a margin of a few of degrees.
And Black Cat hit it pretty close, Pluto is very much off of the ecliptic plane and yes Neptune has been the most far planet for a while. I actually will have to check to see when that changes. However, the planets do vary in our ecliptic plane, the imaginary line of our planet projected into the sky. The path the sum appears to move thru the sky along with the planets, how ever the planets do vary up to 7 degrees north or south of the plane
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