[求助]再问og49

49. The cameras of the Voyager II spacecraft detected six small, previously unseen moons circling Uranus, which doubles to twelve the number of satellites now known as orbiting the distant planet

(A)  which doubles to twelve the number of satellites now known as orbiting

(B)   doubling to twelve the number of satellites now known to orbit

(C)  which doubles to twelve the number of satellites now known in orbit around

(D)  doubling to twelve the number of satellites now known as orbiting

(E)   which doubles to twelve the number of satellites now known that orbit

The pronoun which should be used to refer to a previously mentioned noun, not to the idea expressed in an entire clause. In A, C, and E, which seems to refer to a vague concept invol­ving the detection of moons, but there is no specific noun, such as detection, to which it can refer. Also in E, the use of the phrasing the number... now known that orbit is ungrammatical and unclear. B and D use the correct participial form, doubling, to modify the preceding clause, but D, like A, uses known as orbiting rather than known to orbit, a phrase that is more idiomatic in context. B, therefore, is the best answer.

红色部分说which 不能指代前面的整个句子，可我记得which 有这个用法啊。是我记错了呢？还是ets 不喜欢which 指代前面的整个句子？请大家多指教！