Multiple Choice
If a collapsing interstellar cloud formed only a protostar without an accretion disk around it, what would happen?
A) The forming protostar would be significantly less massive than it would have been otherwise.
B) The forming protostar would be rotating too fast to hold itself together.
C) Only giant planets would form around the protostar.
D) Only terrestrial planets would form around the protostar.
E) More planets would form around the protostar.
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