Is the plane of rotation of the planets around the Sun , vertical of horizontal?

Answer 1

Yes

Answer 2

Depends on what you mean by vertical and what you mean by horizontal. The plane of the orbits falls into a sort of wide swath that is the same as the path that the sun appears to take as it crosses the sky from sunrise to sunset. This is called the plane of the ecliptic, and on any clear night you can find all of the planets that are not washed out by being close to the sun lying roughly in that plane. Some will be visible in the early evening - some will not rise until near morning. The apparent motion across the sky is due to the rotation of the earth on its axis, but the position is defined by the angle of the orbits relative to the angle of the earth as it spins. Pluto is sort of an exception, but it's sort of an exception in other ways as well.

Answer 3

I think ur question should be like this :
Is the plane of revolution of the planets around the Sun , vertical of horizontal?

If so , its neither vertical nor horizontal. It varies from planet 2 planet & time 2 time.

Answer 4

Horizontal.

The plane of rotation of the planets is around the Sun and horizontal relative to it, the Sun's axis of rotation by convention will be taken as the vertical.

Answer 5

When stars form there is an accretion disk that ends up forming the planets/asteroids. The rotation of the star increases and the orbits of the planets align themselves to the rotation of the star.

So it matches the rotation of the sun. it is horizontal compared to the sun

Answer 6

It's neither (or both, if you prefer). Asking if the plane of rotation of the planets is vertical or horizontal presumes an "absolute" frame of reference from which direction can be determined. General relativity suggests that there is no such frame of reference.

Answer 7

It depends where you are standing. :)

If you are looking at the solar system from on edge, and it looked horizontal, you could just rotate yourself 90 degrees and it would look vertical.

That much being said, when astronomers make diagrams of the solar system they normally lay the orbits out horizontally. The Earth's north pole will normally point towards the top of the diagram.

Almost all the orbits of planets will fall within a few degrees of ours, and only a few asteroids have orbits that will look more vertical than horizontal on such a diagram.

Answer 8

Each planet has its own axis of rotation and also it rotates about the sun., u cannot say it is vertical or horizontal.

Answer 9

That is the wrong way to think of our system. If we all thought like the the people in Santiago Chile would fall off the Earth right.

We appear to have a relative horizontal revolutions but there is known to compare this to

Answer 10

There's no such thing as horizontal vs. vertical in space, where there is no ground to compare to.