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Planet Found in Tilted Orbit Around Star Thursday, June 18, 2009 - Anuradha Menon Home >> Headlines >> Space   
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An international team of researchers has found a planet around another star whose orbit is steeply tilted from the plane of the star's equator, a finding that contradicts some theories about how solar systems form. In our own solar system, all of the planets orbit the sun almost exactly in the same plane as the sun's rotation - and that alignment is required by currently accepted theories of how stars and planets form from a collapsing disk of dust and gas. (source: web.mit.edu)
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