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Old 13-04-2011, 09:41 PM
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Brian,
If you take into account that 99% (or close to that) of mass of Solar system is concentrated in the Sun (see here) then you can safely say that Solar system looks the same looking from the centre of the system (Sun). The rest (planets) are just statistical dispersion, pretty insignificant for the big picture.
This is the meaning of words "looks the same". You can do some reading on the subject here.

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