Most Short-Period Comets Do Not Have Randomly Oriented Orbits Because

Most short-period comets do not have randomly oriented orbits because

A) they are affected by the sun's gravity.
B) they are affected by the solar wind.
C) they formed in the Kuiper Belt, a belt-shaped region in the plane of the solar system.
D) their orbits are altered by the drag of their tails in the solar wind.
E) they all were originally objects ejected from the asteroid belt.

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