Multiple Choice
The meteoroids in the Leonids meteor shower, which occurs every November, come from
A) dust in the star-forming Leo nebula.
B) dust heated off Comet Tempel-Tuttle.
C) debris from the collision of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 with Jupiter.
D) zodiacal dust.
E) dust blown off of Earth's surface.
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