The Kuiper belt is:
A) another name for the asteroid belt.
B) a flat or donut-shaped distribution of distant comets around the Sun, extending out about 500 AU.
C) a spherical distribution of distant comets around the Sun, extending out about 50,000 AU.
D) a random distribution of short-period comets extending from inside the orbit of Jupiter to approximately the orbit of Neptune.
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