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Re: Why do heavenly bodies spin?
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Originally Posted by koji8123
plus gravity?
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Originally Posted by CraigD
Except for special cases involving objects that can stabilize themselves in some manner (eg: a paper airplane, or your example of something sliding across grass), nearly any collection of bodies held together by something (the gas of a star, the rocky material of a planet, held together by gravity, a football held together by leather and thread, etc.) are more likely to spin than not.
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