Meteors in outer space keep moving, rather than slowing down and stopping. This behavior is predicted by

A) Galileo's law of falling.
B) the law of force pairs.
C) Aristotle's principle of natural motion.
D) the law of inertia.
E) Newton's law of motion.


D

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