... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . ... solar system . ... Solar system formation doesnт??t mean a thing without that spin . New modeling shows that the supernova shock wave that helped form the Sun also could be responsible for the spin of our solar system. ... The new modeling work from Boss and Keiser shows that this shock injection could have been responsible not only for the distribution of the isotopes now found in primitive meteorites, but also for the spin of our solar system. ...