The orbit is inclined by 12.1 degrees to the ecliptic plane.
All prior observations had been made at or near the Solar System's ecliptic plane.
Look, I have a planet which goes in a backward orbit, and another one right out of the ecliptic plane.
The solar nebula hypothesis predicts that all planets will form exactly in the ecliptic plane.
I swept out of the ecliptic plane, only to find more gunships.
They seem to lie near to the ecliptic plane, in the same half of the sky as the Inhibitor machine.
Odds favor us, especially if we head out normally to the ecliptic plane.
Of all the above, Ulysses is the only spacecraft whose orbit takes it large distances away from the ecliptic plane.
It was not wise, though, to go into overdrive in the ecliptic plane of a solar system.
However, unlike a comet, this object's orbit was nearly circular and within the ecliptic plane.
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