03. Why do planets move? How do they spin around? (A K2S Question)

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The very large cloud of dust and gas, which was rotating, contracted into a rotating disk, which in turn caused the balls of dust and gas to rotate, which in turn caused the newly formed planets to move around the Sun, and also to spin.

Answer provided by Ed Frederick, Ph.D.


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