Why Is Jupiter the Largest Planet in the Solar System

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Multiple Choice

Why is Jupiter the largest planet in the solar system?

• A)Because that's just the way it happened.
• B)Being the oldest planetary core,it had more time than the other planets to accumulate enough gas around itself before solar winds blew interplanetary dust away.
• C)Due to a massive collision with another protoplanet.
• D)Because of its distance from the Sun,the gravitational attraction between it and the Sun is perfectly balanced so as to create a density that results in the largest size of any planet.

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