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Old 20-August-2007, 08:32 PM
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Lots of exosolar planets are in very elliptical orbits. This implies that they are also in highly inclined orbits due to the Kozai mechanism. So for these planets: no.

But I would guess that any system with planets in roughly circular orbits will likely orbit near the stellar rotational plane.
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