Multiple Choice
Suppose Jupiter's gravity disturbs an asteroid and sends it on an elliptical orbit with a high eccentricity.If the semimajor axis of the resulting orbit is 2 AU,the object would be classified as a(n) :
A) Kuiper Belt object.
B) C-type asteroid.
C) Trojan asteroid.
D) Earth-crossing asteroid.
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