An alternative to the nebular theory for the formation of the solar system suggests that the planets formed from blobs of gas that had been gravitationally pulled out of the Sun during the near-collision with another star. This idea is referred to as the
A) fragmentation hypothesis
B) collision-ejection hypothesis
C) encounter hypothesis
D) tidal distortion hypothesis
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