Which one of the following statements about the asteroid belt is falseFALSE?
A) The masses of all the known asteroid belt asteroids, added together, would produce a body too small to be classified as a planet.
B) All known asteroids orbit between Mars and Jupiter.
C) In spite of the vast average separations between asteroids, they can sometimes collide.
D) Almost all asteroids have orbits that lie near the plane of the ecliptic.
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