What is the central idea of the theory of the origin of the tilt in Earth's rotation axis?
A) the gravitational pull of the Moon's mass concentrations
B) the influence of a star passing near the early solar system
C) the impact of the Mars-sized body as it ejected the material that formed the Moon
D) the random distribution of angular momentum in the primordial solar nebula
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