Multiple Choice
The fact that some asteroids cluster in what are called asteroid families is probably the result of:
A) resonances with the jovian planets
B) collisions which broke up larger bodies into a number of smaller ones
C) comets which pass through the asteroid belt and attract asteroids to them
D) strong magnetic fields found in some asteroids
E) random chance
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