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Why do the planets in our solar system orbit in approximately the same plane around the sun?

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02-08-2022

The orbits of the planets are coplanar because during the Solar System's formation, the planets formed out of a disk of dust which surrounded the Sun. Because that disk of dust was a disk, all in a plane, all of the planets formed in a plane as well.

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