The solar nebula theory supposes that:

A) the moons of all the planets were not formed from a nebula.
B) asteroids formed about half a billion years before the formation of the planets' moons.
C) the Sun formed about a billion years before the planets.
D) planets form in rotating disks of gas and dust around young stars.


D

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