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The rotation of the planets was mainly determined closer to the beginning of the solar system, as it was still being formed. Large impacts early on would have set the planets spinning at certain rates, some even in the opposite direction. They have kept spinning over the centuries as there is not much to slow them down - only orbiting bodies or subsequent impacts.

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