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The story of why planets rotate around the sun starts back at the start of the solar system. As the clouds of gas, dust and cosmic debris. When cosmic gas cloud collapsed into proto-stars and galaxies portion of the material became an accretion disc around the stars-to-be. The physics of this collapse is that the material falling into the gravitational attractor does not fall straight in, but spirals in. Further physics makes it spiral in a flat disc around the star. This is due to the conservation of orbital angular momentum.

Most of the material becomes "star" but a small percentage becomes "planets" (made from smaller whirlpools of dust). The planets continue to spin around the star in the same way that the original accretion disc spun.

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