Why Do the Jovian Planet Interiors Differ

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Multiple Choice

Why do the jovian planet interiors differ?

• A)The more distant planets formed in a cooler region of the solar nebula and therefore contain a greater proportion of ices than the closer jovian planets.
• B)They differ due to giant impacts at the late stages of planet formation.
• C)Accretion took longer further from the Sun,so the more distant planets formed their cores later and captured less gas from the solar nebula than the closer jovian planets.
• D)The solar heating is less for the more distant planets than the closer planets.
• E)The more distant planets had longer to form than the closer planets,since the solar nebula lasted longer at greater distances from the Sun.

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