What Is the Origin of Many of the Bodies in the Kuiper

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Multiple Choice

What is the origin of many of the bodies in the Kuiper belt and the Oort cloud?

• A) These distant objects were ejected outflows from the Sun during the early history of the solar system.
• B) These distant objects have been captured from interstellar space by the Sun's gravitational pull.
• C) The gravitational forces from Jupiter and Saturn flung planetesimals from regions closer to the Sun out into these regions.
• D) Early in the history of the solar system it is believed that these objects were pulled out of the Sun by a close encounter with a passing star.

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