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Article #16845A simple question about orbits
From: november
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 00:00
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 00:00
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Why do the planets, and other bodies, revolve around our star in a relatively two-dimensional plane? By this, I mean the orbits of the planets (as well as astroids, etc.) seem to form a collective flat disc when modeled (I know Pluto's orbit is a little bit askew). Why not orbit three-dimensionally? A lot of galaxies and everything else related also seem to be rather two-dimensional in shape. Is this just a property of gravity that really has no explaination? I'm asking this just out of curiosity. I'm not yet very knowledgable in this subject. Thanks, John -Please Email replies-
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f871d,1b907b386f1b2473,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf871d,public X-Google-Thread: 11339c,1b907b386f1b2473,start X-Google-Attributes: gid11339c,public X-Google-Thread: 10b271,1b907b386f1b2473,start X-Google-Attributes: gid10b271,public From: november@agate.net Subject: A simple question about orbits Date: 1998/02/12 Message-ID: <34e34ab0.860826@news.agate.net> X-Deja-AN: 324522523 Organization: Agate Internet Services (AIS) Newsgroups: sci.physics,alt.sci.planetary,gac.physics.astronomy