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The Picard Maneuver to Funny: Home of the Haha · 1 year ago

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The Picard Maneuver to Funny: Home of the Haha · 1 year ago
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  • MrJameGumb
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    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!

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      Does that mean eventually Pluto will crash into Neptune in the absence of something else taking them out first?

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        Apparently 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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