At 03:01 07-01-01 +0000, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
>Kevin Tarr wrote:
> >
> >With the new planets being discovered, have they all been in basically the
> >same axis as our solar system?
> >
>Uh, dunno.
>
> >How is our system orientated with respect to
> >the rotation of the galaxy?
> >
>IIRC, the double stars and our solar system are randomly oriented wrt the
>galactic plane.
The angle between the ecliptic and the galactic plane is about 62°,
IIRC. FWIW, the angle between the Earth's equatorial plane and the
galactic plane is 62.6°, and the angle between the Earth's equatorial plane
and the ecliptic plane is 23.5° (the reason your average classroom globe is
tilted at that angle.)
-- Ronn! :)
