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Originally Posted by antoniseb
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. |
If you lined up a thousand planets (they're all in inferior conjunction with respect to the outermost), drew a line connecting them all, and then let the planets move in circular orbits, the line would begin to form a spiral, would it not? It would be a logarithmic spiral, though.