Why Does No Major Planet Orbit the Sun at the Location

question 63

Multiple Choice

Why does no major planet orbit the Sun at the location of the asteroid belt?

• A) One such object did form there but was destroyed by a collision with an early comet; the asteroid belt is the debris from the collision.
• B) Jupiter's gravitational pull stirred up the planetesimals, preventing them from coalescing into a single large object.
• C) In the early solar nebula, the temperature that close to the Sun was too high for rock or iron to condense into solid form.
• D) Three Earth-sized planets did form there, but they destroyed each other by mutual collisions; the asteroid belt is the debris from these collisions.

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