Uranus

Tilted 98°, Uranus rolls around the Sun on its side.

Its "wobble" led to Neptune, and later to Lowell's Planet X. Those later residuals were errors.

Sources

1. Standish 1993, AJ 105:2000
2. Wikipedia: Discovery of Uranus (1781)

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