[GeronL]

"Huh? Actually, the Glactic plane is almost 60 degrees offset from our equatorial plane which is offset by 23.5 degrees from our orbit plane." - RadioAstronomer

So, did sombody bump into it or sumthun? der...

[RadioAstronomer]

So, did sombody bump into it or sumthun? der...

Something did bump into the Earth. This is the best model we have on the formation of the moon. As far as the tilt of our equatorial plane versus the glalactic plane, it was the initial plane of the accretion disk of the early formation of the solar system.