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Old 09-04-2010, 02:56 AM   #4
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The Known Universe...

this video made me wonder, why do all the planets in our solar system orbit on the same horizontal plane? you'd think that the orbits around a star would look similar to that model of satellites orbiting Earth, going in all different directions to resemble a sphere. i'm guessing it's the same reason why galaxies resemble flat disks, and not spheres, but it still doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me
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