Why is the Solar System Flat?

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Our sun and the earth, and all the planets and moons and dwarf planetsand asteroids and comets... The Solar System in shortformed about 4.6 billion years ago from a nebulous cloudof swirling gas and dust which coalesced thanks to the irresistiblyattractive force of gravity.However, this nebula started off more or less as a big shapeless blob.So how did our solar system end up with all the planetsand their moons orbiting in a flat disk?I mean, we've all seen the planetary model of the atom,which is definitely wrong when applied to atoms.But it also kind of suggests that planets might revolvearound the sun every which way.So is our solar system somehow special in its flatness?Or is the planetary model of the atom doubly wrong?Well, our solar system definitely isn&...