Feminist critics’’have often pondered whether a postmodern language may be articulated that obviates the essentialist arrogance of much modernist and some feminist discourse and does not reduce feminism to silences or a purely negative and reactionary stance. This ideal may be actualized in a discourse that recognizes itself as historically situated, ’’ as motivated by values and, thus, political interests, and as a human practice without transcendent justification. The author Dorothy Allison meets these criteria by focusing on women who have been marginalized by totalizing forces and ideas, while simultaneously reminding the reader, through the wide range of women that she portrays and their culpability in her protagonists’’ predicaments, that unlike pure and transcendent heroes, women are real characters and morally complex. Allison insists that humans are burdened with the responsibility of fashioning their own stories, quotidian as they may be, and .while these will never offer the solace of transcendent justification, the constant negotiation between the word and the world avoids reticence on the one hand and the purely negative on the other. According to the passage, astronomers studying Martian meteors discovered on Earth were perplexed by them for which of the following reasons
A．The meteors found on Earth were too young to have originated from the impacts in question. B．The meteors found on Earth were too old to be easily dated. C．Not enough impact events have been recorded in recent history to explain how any young meteors would have reached the Earth. D．Impacts on Mars have been so small that scientists question how any meteors have reached the earth. E．The age distribution of meteors found on Earth was inexplicably based toward youth.