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What Is the Jeans Instability

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What is the Jeans instability?


A) When a growing protoplanet becomes too large, it is more likely to be split apart by subsequent bombardment than to grow further.
B) If a solar nebula is too massive it will continue to collapse to become a black hole and will not form planets.
C) If the disk of matter surrounding a solar nebula becomes too hot, it will dissipate, and planets will not form.
D) If a cloud of gas and dust is sufficiently dense, it will collapse due to its own gravity.

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