http://www.accessplanetary.com/planets/why-are-all-planets-observed-to-revolve-in-the-same-direction-around-the-sun Mon, 26 Jul 2010 22:32:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.accessplanetary.com/planets/why-are-all-planets-observed-to-revolve-in-the-same-direction-around-the-sun/comment-page-1#comment-683 Resident Astronomer Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:54:59 +0000 http://www.accessplanetary.com/planets/why-are-all-planets-observed-to-revolve-in-the-same-direction-around-the-sun#comment-683 All the planets revolve around the Sun in the same direction because it is believed that this was the direction of rotation of the solar nebula - the cloud of gas and dust from which the Sun and all the planets were created some 4.5 billion years ago.<br><b>References : </b><br> All the planets revolve around the Sun in the same direction because it is believed that this was the direction of rotation of the solar nebula – the cloud of gas and dust from which the Sun and all the planets were created some 4.5 billion years ago.
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]]> http://www.accessplanetary.com/planets/why-are-all-planets-observed-to-revolve-in-the-same-direction-around-the-sun/comment-page-1#comment-682 crazychild Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:23:59 +0000 http://www.accessplanetary.com/planets/why-are-all-planets-observed-to-revolve-in-the-same-direction-around-the-sun#comment-682 It is just conservation of angular momentum. It is like a top spinning toy. It takes a large effort for a planet to suddenly stop and orbit in the opposite direction.<br><b>References : </b><br> It is just conservation of angular momentum. It is like a top spinning toy. It takes a large effort for a planet to suddenly stop and orbit in the opposite direction.
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