Re: Planes of multiple and planetary systems

John Park wrote:

Do we? It doesn't resemble the ones we've been able to detect so far, but
we're barely at the point where we could detect a 1-Jupiter mass at
Jupiter's orbital radius (and then we'd need several years of
observations to define the orbit).

No, we don't. The only thing we know about the Sun being peculiar is that it's not part of a multiple star system, as more than half of stars are. But that doesn't make it particularly atypical, just not in the majority.

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