Multiple Choice
Consider a small parcel of gas in the cloud out of which the Sun formed that initially was located in the accretion disk at a distance of 10 AU from the Sun and rotating around it with a speed of 10 km/s.If this parcel of gas eventually found its way to a distance of 1 AU from the Sun without changing its orbital angular momentum, what would be its new rotation speed?
A) 100 km/s
B) 0.1 km/s
C) 0.001 km/s
D) 10 km/s
E) 1,000 km/s
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