Planetary orbits messed up

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leifanator
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Planetary orbits messed up

Post #1by leifanator » 19.05.2012, 23:33

I was looking at the orbits of the planets around Sol, which have always been identical in terms of tilt (when viewed from a certain angle, the orbits look like a single line).
One day, for some reason, the orbits suddenly became uneven in tilt. See the attachments for examples.

Is this a bug, or did I likely do something to screw it up?

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Hungry4info
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Re: Planetary orbits messed up

Post #2by Hungry4info » 20.05.2012, 00:17

It's not a bug or a glitch or a problem. The orbits of the planets really are tilted like that. They do not orbit the sun in a perfectly flat plane.
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