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[atomic7732]

You know how they are depicted inclined like Pluto?

Most are actually in the plane with Earth, less inclined than most asteroids.

[Darvince]

What I also noticed is that most asteroids are depicted with little or no inclination when they have ranges between 2° and 20° mostly towards the higher end. ~

[atomic7732]

yeah

[APODman]

Many comets have very inclined orbits, many some close of 90o.

Below are the orbits of some thousands of comets in Starry Night software catalog, the solar system are view laterally:

[APODman]

Here are more comets orbits:




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[atomic7732]

That's the outer comets. I'm talking about the lesser known, periodic comets. Like Encke.

[Darvince]

So you mean the comets that have been pulled into low inclination, small orbit comets?

[atomic7732]

The Jupiter families!

because they probably actually formed in the Kuiper Belt... They were then pulled in, and leveled out with the planets (KOZAI!!!!), and pulled further in by Jupiter. The ones that currently reach out ot the kuiper Belt, may eventually become a Jupiter family, but most of the non-coplanar comets are from the Oort Cloud (thus seeing the odd inclinations, cause the Oort is a sphere).

[Hamster]

Here are more comets orbits:




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Umm, I didn't know that comets were from a rich city.

[Naru523]

Actually something blocked it. It'll revert back if you right click the image and view.