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The cause of all rotation in the solar system is the rotating gas and dust cloud that the sun and planets coalesced from almost 5 billion years ago. Angular momentum must be conserved and so we continue to rotate today.

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The cause of all rotation in the solar system is the rotating gas and dust cloud that the sun and planets coalesced from almost 5 billion years ago. Angular momentum must be conserved and so we continue to rotate today.

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Their own free will bro!

Just kidding. The real answer is gravity.

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The sun's gravity, combined with the inertia of the planets. If they didn't orbit the Sun, the Sun's gravity would cause them to fall into the Sun.

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The Sun's gravity

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