Why are the planets orbiting the Sun in a flat disk, instead of in all different orientations like the popular depiction of an atom?
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What other people said about angular momentum, but also, there is an additional small effect where planets will tend to pull other planets into similar orbits over time. When two planets orbit close to each other, they exert a very small pull which bends the orbits slightly towards each other over time.
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