<p>Of course not.</p>

<p>See Neptune's moons. Triton's orbit has a tilt of 157º from Neptune's rotation plane, which is in itself tilted 30º from Neptune's orbit, just 2º away from the Ecliptic.</p>

<p>Or look at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moons_of_Uranus">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moons_of_Uranus</a></p>

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<p>Do all moons orbit their planets on the ecliptic? Do they all follow this same process as the moon that orbits Earth, or is their some random distribution with some even having extreme polar orbits.</p>

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no moon is *exactly* in the eccliptic and no planet (except the one that defines the eccliptic) either. Why should they?
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Do all moons orbit their planets on the ecliptic?
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# Do all moons orbit their planets on the ecliptic?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2014-01-18)

Do all moons orbit their planets on the ecliptic? Do they all follow this same process as the moon that orbits Earth, or is their some random distribution with some even having extreme polar orbits.

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> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: no moon is *exactly* in the eccliptic and no planet (except the one that defines the eccliptic) either. Why should they?  

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### Answer by username_2 on 2014-01-18. Score: 5 | Accepted answer

Of course not.

See Neptune's moons. Triton's orbit has a tilt of 157º from Neptune's rotation plane, which is in itself tilted 30º from Neptune's orbit, just 2º away from the Ecliptic.

Or look at <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moons_of_Uranus>


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