Multiple Choice
The large gravitational influences of Jupiter and Saturn forced some planetesimals in their neighborhood to move outward away from the Sun. A consequence of this was
A) that conservation of angular momentum caused the giant planets to spin faster.
B) collisions that produced many fragments became the rings of the outer planets.
C) collisions that formed Uranus and Neptune.
D) the creation or at least enlargement of the Kuiper belt and the Oort cloud.
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