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Where would a brown dwarf be located on an H-R diagram?
 
  A) above and to the left of the highest part of the main sequence
  B) in the upper right corner of the H-R diagram
  C) in the lower left corner of the H-R diagram
  D) below and to the right of the lowest part of the main sequence

Question 2

Suppose the planet Jupiter had never formed. How do you think the distribution of asteroids and comets in our solar system would be different? Explain.
 
  What will be an ideal response?



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Answer to Question 1

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Answer to Question 2

If Jupiter had never existed, its gravity would not have prevented asteroidal material from accreting into a single planet outside of Mars. Comets would not have been flung into the Oort cloud or completely out of the solar system to as great a degree (though the outer jovian planets may have performed this function).





 

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