Saturday, 10 December 2016

general relativity - Can gravitational effects create a plane of the ecliptic?


Lots of questions about the why of the plane of the ecliptic, and good answers, but I was wondering about gravitational effects.


If we picture for example, Saturn as being a few degrees above the plane, then Jupiter and Uranus being a few degrees below the plane, would the gravitational pull of each of these planets tend to pull them into the same plane after millions, perhaps billions of years?





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