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proto Saturn, does explain this coincidence, plus the odd fact 
that the ecliptic and the seven planets which orbit close to it 
don't come especially near to orbiting the sun's equator. [Venus 
3.4 degrees inclination to the ecliptic, earth 0, Mars 1.9, 
Jupiter 1.3, Saturn 2.4, Uranus .8, Neptune 1.8]  Only Mercury, 
at 7.0 degrees, has the same orbital inclination as the sun's 
equator.

So, to anticipate your next question -- how did the earth and 
Mars go from an equatorial orbit around Saturn to the present 
ecliptic orbits?  The distances that the planets traveled above 
and below Saturn with respect to the ecliptic (actually the other 
way 'round -- the ecliptic is defined as the plane of the earth's 
orbit) are extremely small in comparison to the size of the solar 
system.  So that when the sun captured the motion of earth, Mars, 
Venus, Saturn, they all continued to revolve in the plane defined 
by the angle at which the Saturnian system approached the sun (23 
degrees from their orbits around Saturn.)

This is why I think of the present angles to the ecliptic of 
these three planets (Saturn, Mars, earth) as "residual".  Like 
their relative sizes, similar polar orientation, and similar 
earth/Mars rotation rates, these angles of inclination to the 
ecliptic fit into the physical evidence of the polar 
configuration.  If they were stretched out along a polar 
shishkabob when the sun became dominant, I would expect Saturn to 
have a larger angle of inclination than Mars.  It does.  [We 
won't mention Venus here: it has a wilder history.]