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Old 11-November-2007, 11:18 AM
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Originally Posted by mugaliens View Post
Certainly if there were a few thousand more planets you might think otherwise...
Are you thinking that Saturn's rings are a big spiral? How about the ringlet of Neptune? These are things that orbit something else, but I think spiral is not an accurate term for them. Spiral has an implication of curves tracing progressively inward or outward, as in the spiral of archimedes:


The solar system is not a spiral, and to answer mugs' question, I am serious.
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