Why do the planet revolve around the sun in the same direction?

Question

planets (plural)

Answer 1

I think this is the only way to have the angular momentum for the system to be conserved.

Answer 2

In addition to some of the explanations given above I would like to add,( Skipping some details ) that Venus is the only planet that revolves around its own axis in the clock-wise direction,while other planets revolve in the anti clock-wise direction.
In Venus the Sun would seem to rise in the West and set in the East.

In India there is the habit of worshiping the, "Nava Grahas"( nine planets ).There are statues representing the nine planets,and people come around them 9 times.Of the 9 rounds,8 rounds are in the same direction and 1 round is in the opposite direction,which is done for Venus.

Answer 3

THE PLANETS REVOLVE AROUND THE SUN IN THE SAME DIRECTION DUE TO THIS LAW "IN SPACE, IF ANYTHING STARTS GOING, IT KEEPS ON GOING IN THE SAME DIRECTION AND WITH THE SAME CONSTANT VELOCITY" WHEN THE REVOLUTION OF THE EARTH STARTED IT HAD A CONSTANT VELOCITY AND AS BY ABOVE RULE THE EARTH HAD TO MOVE WITH THE CONSTANT VELOCITY AND IN THE SAME DIRECTION WITH WHICH IT STARTED (nobody knows how the revolution started and why it started in that direction, thus it is very will known that all planets are revolving by the centripetal force provided by the sun). AS THIS LAW IS APPLICABLE TO ALL OTHER PLANETS TOO, SO ALL OTHER PLANETS ARE REVOLVING IN THE SAME DIRECTION AND WITH THE SAME VELOCITY.

Answer 4

Simple, really. Think back to before there were planets, when there was a disk of matter in space around the sun, which is spinning. The spinning sun tends to drag matter in space surrounding the sun along with it, so the whole disk of matter is spinning like a wheel. As time progresses, these things tend to agomerate, condense, if you prefer, into larger and larger masses, which then attract more matter to them, eventually becoming planets. It takes a LONG time, but eventually there will be several large masses, all circling in the same direction, which we call planets.

Answer 5

look at up the superstring theory i think it explains

Answer 6

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_theory

Answer 7

centrifugal force