Why won't Pluto collide with Neptune?
A) Pluto is always much farther from the Sun than Neptune.
B) Pluto orbits the Sun exactly 2 times for every 3 Neptune orbits, which ensures they never come close together.
C) Pluto's orbit never comes anywhere close to Neptune's orbit.
D) Actually, a collision of the two is inevitable within the next billion years.
Question 2
Collisions or near collisions are necessary to explain the observed irregularities in our solar system.
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Neptune - Great White Spot
Artist's conception of the New Horizons spacecraft passing over Pluto, showing its tenuous atmo
Neptune’s Rings
Pluto
Chinese workers on a railway in the far West. “Without them,” Leland Stanford, president of the Cent
Close-up view of Pluto's mountains, frozen plains and hazes