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In this post the 27 largest known objects in the solar system are sorted by inclination.<br /><br />I should point out (and will go back and insert edits in the previous posts to address this point) that all orbital elements: eccentricity, inclination, period, "a" (semimajor axis of the ellitical orbit), etc., are osculating elements. That means that they change as the bodies in the solar system interact gravitationally with each other. There are other factors than gravity, but they are extremely small. So, in a sense, the precise value of any of these is a snapshot in time. The changes are not large enough to affect the grouping of the objects in these lists to any large degree.<br />In fact, the solar system barycenter, (center of mass of the solar system) which is one of the foci of an object's orbital ellipse moves within the interior of the sun in response to the position of all the other planets and "stuff", but primarily the Giants.<br /><br />Edit 9/8{ Thanks Tony873004 for this correction "Actually, it is exterior to the Sun. The Sun / Jupiter barycenter is: <br />r(solar orbit) = Mass(jupiter) * r(jupiter orbit) / Mass(sun)=1.9e27kg*778412000000m/19..e30kg = 743,207,437m. This exceeds the Sun's radius which is 696,000,000m. The other planets sometimes add or subtract from this value. }<br /><br /><br />OK, the 27 largest, sorted by inclination.<br />First column, name; second is my <font color="yellow">arbitrary</font>class. I did change one hot cubewano (2002 UX 25) to "not hot" based on it's position in the list, but that's minor, and could change in final analysis) See part 1 for definitions; finally, inclination to the nearest degree.<br />I'd rather see solar system inclination based on Jupiter's orbit rather than earth's, since it is 72% of the non-solar mass of the system, but since it's only a 1.8 degree difference it's not too important.<br />One day I shall do the rather extensive calculations to accurately convert that infomation to a Jovian bas <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#000080"><em><font color="#000000">But the Krell forgot one thing John. Monsters. Monsters from the Id.</font></em> </font></p><p><font color="#000080">I really, really, really, really miss the "first unread post" function</font><font color="#000080"> </font></p> </div>