The Kirkwood Gaps Are Regularly Spaced Gaps in the Asteroid

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Multiple Choice

The Kirkwood gaps are regularly spaced gaps in the asteroid distribution.What causes the gaps to appear?

• A) The pressure of the solar wind is especially strong at these locations, evacuating asteroids out of them.
• B) They are regions where gravitational pull from Mars is overcome by gravitational pull from Jupiter.
• C) They are regions where an object and Jupiter would regularly line up during their orbits, causing the object to resonate with Jupiter's gravity until it leaves that orbit.
• D) They are regions between Jupiter and Saturn where the combined effect of both planets' gravity prevents objects from orbiting there.
• E) Asteroids on orbits within the gaps would be moving too fast to be in a stable orbit.

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