According to the Nebular Theory, How Did the Asteroid Belt

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Multiple Choice

According to the nebular theory, how did the asteroid belt form?

• A)It is material left over from the interstellar cloud that never contracted with the rest of the gases to form the solar nebula.
• B)It is made of planetesimals formed in the outer solar system that were flung into distant orbits by encounters with the jovian planets.
• C)It consists of objects that fragmented from the protosun during a catastrophic collision early in the formation of the solar system.
• D)It is made of planetesimals that formed beyond Neptune's orbit and never accreted to form a planet.
• E)It is made of planetesimals between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter that never formed into a planet.

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