It can be inferred from the passage that which of the following would most probably be observed during the Earth’s passage through a meteor stream if the conventional theories mentioned in line 18 were______
A. Meteor activity would gradually increase to a single, intense peak, and then gradually decline.
B. Meteor activity would be steady throughout the period of the meteor shower.
C. Meteor activity would rise to a peak at the beginning and at the end of the meteor shower.
D. Random bursts of very high meteor activity would be interspersed with periods of very little activity.
E. In years in which the Earth passed through only the outer areas of a meteor stream, meteor activity would be absent.