During the formation of the solar system, two laws of physics were acting which caused the shape that exists.?
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gravity and conservation of angular momentum
Universal gravitation was an inward-directed force that coalesced the dust cloud the Solar System was made from. As it collapsed, its subtle rotation grew more pronounced. The apparent centrifugal force from the rotation cancelled out the gravitational effects but ONLY in the directions perpendicular to the axis of rotation. Thus, the gas cloud condensed into a disc. Physical interactions in the disc -- mostly gravity -- caused the dust to accrete into planets.
Gravitation and angular momentum did the deed.
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