The Oort Cloud Is Believed to Be

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Multiple Choice

The Oort Cloud is believed to be

• A) the circular disk of gas around the Sun's equator from which the planets formed.
• B) a spherical cloud of cometary nuclei far beyond the Kuiper Belt.
• C) the great nebula found just below the belt stars of Orion.
• D) a grouping of asteroids and meteoroids between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.
• E) a flattened belt of cometary nuclei just beyond the orbit of Neptune.

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