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I feel as if I should know this, but..............?
the more I think about it..??? Is there any reason why the planets ecliptic is in the plane of Sol's equator? Just chance? Or, maybe I'm in error here? Frame dragging?
Yes, Sol is the sun, but is there a reason that the closer planets to the sun are all in a plane that seems to coincide with Sol's equator?
Triviali, Many thanks. The gravity interaction I understand, but I'm missing something here. What does the sun's rotation have to do with anything? Could not an accretion disk form in a "polar" orbit around a new sun?
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- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
Ah orbital mechanics. The objects about our solar system do what you asked largely because of gravitational forces and the Sun's rotation. Yes, the accretion disk model explains this well.
For frame dragging to be an option, you must have an aether, which was disproven a century or more ago; however, the proposed Higgs field acts surprisingly like an aether by using frame dragging to give mass to particles.
There's a great source of information posted below.
- NashLv 61 decade ago
I always assumed that one of the reasons why its believed that the entire solar system formed from one cloud of dust spun into a disc. Pluto is way off but then its thought to be a captured satellite.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Sol is the name of our sun, not a planet.
