Multiple Choice
What is the origin of many of the bodies in the Kuiper belt and the Oort cloud?
A) These distant objects were ejected outflows from the Sun during the early history of the solar system.
B) These distant objects have been captured from interstellar space by the Sun's gravitational pull.
C) The gravitational forces from Jupiter and Saturn flung planetesimals from regions closer to the Sun out into these regions.
D) Early in the history of the solar system it is believed that these objects were pulled out of the Sun by a close encounter with a passing star.
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