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Why do all the planets rotate the same way around the sun?

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Why do all the planets rotate the same way around the sun?
Samuel, Sidcup

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Name: Hal Redhill
Qualification: Professor of Public Understanding of Science, University of Brighton
Answer: When the big bang first happened everything went in different directions, particles began to rotate like a whirlwind and as they rotated they started to coalesce and formed planets and solar system. So they were rotating in the same direction before they even formed.

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