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The Most Likely Mechanism for the Solar System's Formation Appears

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The most likely mechanism for the solar system's formation appears to be:


A) a capture theory in which the planets were formed elsewhere and were captured by the gravitational pull of the Sun as they drifted through space.
B) the idea that the planets were formed deep in the interior of the Sun and were later flung out by the Sun's angular momentum.
C) that the solar system was once a galaxy, from which the Sun and planets are the remnants.
D) that a cloud of gas and dust condensed to form the Sun, while planets formed later by condensation and accretion within the nebular disk.

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