What Is the Jeans Instability

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Multiple Choice

What is the Jeans instability?

• A) When a growing protoplanet becomes too large, it is more likely to be split apart by subsequent bombardment than to grow further.
• B) If a solar nebula is too massive it will continue to collapse to become a black hole and will not form planets.
• C) If the disk of matter surrounding a solar nebula becomes too hot, it will dissipate, and planets will not form.
• D) If a cloud of gas and dust is sufficiently dense, it will collapse due to its own gravity.

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