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by orra 470 days ago
Indeed. And to elaborate: the random collisions which flattened the solar system (or galaxy) over billions of years all conserved angular momentum.

Minute Physics have a nice video on this: https://youtube.com/watch?v=tmNXKqeUtJM

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Nice video, thanks for sharing.

And just to clarify to GP, the original dust was not in the same plane and the video explains why it ends up in the same plane.