Jupiter and Saturn have obliquities of ~3 and ~27 degrees, respectively. We offer an explanation of this puzzling difference involving a secular spin orbit resonance between Saturn and Neptune. Jupiter is very close to a similar resonance with Uranus, and we discuss dynamical histories of Jupiter that could account for the preservation of its small obliquity.
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