What Effect Does Jupiter Have on Asteroids in the Asteroid

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Multiple Choice

What effect does Jupiter have on asteroids in the asteroid belt?

• A) Jupiter has no effect whatsoever on such small objects because they are a long way away from Jupiter, and Jupiter''s gravitational influence varies as the inverse square of distance, by Newton''s law.
• B) Jupiter perturbs only the orbits of asteroids whose orbital periods are a simple fraction (e.g., 1/2, 1/3, 2/3, 2/7) of its orbital period.
• C) Jupiter disturbs only the orbits of asteroids whose orbital distances (or semimajor axes) are a simple fraction (e.g., 1/2, 1/3, 2/3, 2/7) of the radius of Jupiter''s orbit.
• D) Jupiter disturbs the orbits of all the asteroids in the belt, slowing them down and causing them to spiral slowly in toward the Sun.

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