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It is the belief of astronomers that the solar system condensed out of a cloud of interstellar gas and dust. The cloud itself was originally spinning, and that rotational motion then became part of all the objects in the solar system which resulted from that cloud. If you also would like to know why the cloud was spinning, we could in theory trace it back to the Big Bang.

Additionally, our spin was complemented by the giant impact which is believed to have formed the moon, then slowed by the moon's continued existence.

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