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What effect does Jupiter have on asteroids in the asteroid belt?
A)   It will have no effect whatsoever on such small objects because they are a long way away from Jupiter, and Jupiter's gravitational influence varies as the inverse square of distance, by Newton's law.
B)   It will perturb only the orbits of those asteroids whose orbital periods are a simple fraction (e.g., 1/2, 1/3, 2/3, 2/7) of its orbital period.
C)   It will only disturb the orbits of those asteroids whose orbital distances (or semimajor axes) are a simple fraction (e.g., 1/2, 1/3, 2/3, 2/7) of the radius of Jupiter's orbit.
D)   It will disturb the orbits of all the asteroids in the belt, slowing them down and causing them to spiral slowly in toward the Sun.
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