Multiple Choice
The Oort Cloud is believed to be
A) the circular disk of gas around the Sun's equator from which the planets formed.
B) a spherical cloud of cometary nuclei far beyond the Kuiper Belt.
C) the great nebula found just below the belt stars of Orion.
D) a grouping of asteroids and meteoroids between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.
E) a flattened belt of cometary nuclei just beyond the orbit of Neptune.
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