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Why do all the planets in the solar system orbit the sun in the same direction ?

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The result of the initial rotation of the cloud of gas and dust that condensed to form the Sun and planets. As gravity condensed the clouds, of angular momentum increased the rotational speed and flattened the cloud out into a disk.

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