Decide whether the discovery should be considered reasonable or surprising:

A solar system has 10 planets that all orbit the star in approximately the same plane. However, five planets orbit in one direction (e. g., counterclockwise), while the other five orbit in the opposite direction (e. g., clockwise).

A. Surprising

B. Reasonable

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Lindsey Santos

26 February, 20:26

Decide whether the discovery should be considered reasonable or surprising:

A solar system has 10 planets that all orbit the star in approximately the same plane. However, five planets orbit in one direction (e. g., counterclockwise), while the other five orbit in the opposite direction (e. g., clockwise).

A. Surprising

B. Reasonable

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Keegan Stevens · Answer 1

A. Surprising.

Explanation:

The above scenario is completely surprising because there are 10 planets in solar system and considering all the orbit approximately in the same plane. But amazingly half (five) of the planets orbit counterclockwise, while remaining five planets orbit clockwise (opposite direction).

Reasonably, all planet should be orbit in same direction but it's surprising that in a same solar system half are orbit clockwise and half are anticlockwise.