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Pluto and Neptune are locked in a 3:2 orbital resonance, which means that for every three trips Neptune makes around the Sun, Pluto orbits twice.
Could Neptune and Pluto ever collide, as their orbits intersect? - BBC Science Focus Magazine.
However, crossing orbits does not imply these planets will collide. Here’s why: As Pluto travels in its orbit, Neptune’s gravity causes small “course corrections.”
16K views 5 years ago. Sometimes, Pluto and Neptune swap positions in the Solar System. From 1979 to 1999, Pluto was the eighth planet from the Sun, but in 1999 it slipped beyond Neptune...
These two planets couldn't be more different: you could fit 20 Plutos side by side to match the diameter of Neptune. So what would happen if the two planets ...
Pluto last crossed inside Neptune's orbit on February 7, 1979, and temporarily became the 8th planet from the Sun. Pluto will cross back over Neptune's orbit again on February 11, 1999 to resume its place as the 9th planet from the Sun for the next 228 years. So will Pluto and Neptune ever collide? No!
It works like this: on the first orbit, Pluto beats Neptune to the point their orbits cross, and the two avoid a collision by a huge distance. By the time Pluto completes another orbit,...