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January 11[edit]  Why are the 8 planets so far from the
sun?[edit]  I'm asking in comparison to most of the discovered
exoplanets, including the rocky kepler10b. These tend to be
extremely close to their parent star, often closer than mercury
is to our own sun. Are planets of such small orbits simply
easier to locate, or is our solar system truly unusual in this
respect? (talk) 00:00, 11 January 2011 (UTC)  The reason that
discovered exoplanets are closer to their respective stars is
that our methods of discovering them require that they be
located so close to their stars. Presumably there are lots of
different ways in which solar systems may be organized. The type
of organization we find in our solar system may be far-and-away
the most common way they are organized