According to Wikipedia it takes 248 years for Pluto to orbit the sun! Sometimes it's eccentric orbit brings it closer to the sun than Neptune!
49 0 ReplyDoes that mean eventually Pluto will crash into Neptune in the absence of something else taking them out first?
17 0 ReplyApparently not. There are 2 reasons for this: while Neptune's and Pluto's orbits overlap on images, they overlap in such a way they never overlap on the same 3D point in space. Ther is also gravitational resonance[2], where each planet speeds up or slows down as the other approaches
[1]https://www.astronomy.com/science/ask-astro-will-pluto-and-neptune-ever-collide/, [2]: https://www.sciencefocus.com/space/could-neptune-and-pluto-ever-collide-as-their-orbits-intersect
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"Sometimes" being around 50 years, or how much?
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Job of planet: clear entire orbit.
Requirements for candidate: must have already cleared entire orbit.
Prospective planet: ...
Agent: how about you clear your orbit as an intern, first.
15 2 ReplyWhy so many posts about Pluto today .?
6 0 Reply8 0 ReplyThat's how memes be sometimes.
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According to creationist we can't know the orbit of pluto if we haven't seen it make an orbit.
4 0 ReplyPfft, our moon is bigger. You're just a big ass comet that can't even do that right to get a tail.
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