Could Neptune and Pluto ever collide ?

i was wondering this yesterday in science class . i was looking at the solar system and the way the planets revolve .. and i was wonder ing if pluto and neptune would ever collide .. not soon but in a very long time .. i think they could .

No. It looks like their orbits intersect on a 2-D map, but actually, they're on differend planes.

No offense, but shouldn't this be on the General Discussion Forum?

And they have different orbitting times and those from my scientific knowledge can never be changed.

All good points, and they have probably be orbiting for at least a few billion years, and it hasn't happened, so it probably will not, of course when the sun dies a few billion years from now it will quite certainly affect the centre of gravity and orbits and so forth, so who knows.....

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Neptune and Pluto's orbits are tilted, so they'll never collide

Have you ever looked up at a full moon in the evening and thought, "wouldn't it be great to see a sodding huge asteroid hit that thing."
With any luck, the Earth would develop a system of rings. That would be incredibly cool (apart from the whole obliteration-of-sattelites thing.)

nop i never wonder that

Originally posted by Laskharis
Have you ever looked up at a full moon in the evening and thought, "wouldn't it be great to see a sodding huge asteroid hit that thing."
With any luck, the Earth would develop a system of rings. That would be incredibly cool (apart from the whole obliteration-of-sattelites thing.)

Possibly, but that would take millions, even billions of years to happen. And the odds of it happening even after that time are fairly slim.

Originally posted by StinkFist462
i was wondering this yesterday in science class . i was looking at the solar system and the way the planets revolve .. and i was wonder ing if pluto and neptune would ever collide .. not soon but in a very long time .. i think they could .

yes... in the land of narnia.

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Anything is possible, but probably not. Who cares anyway?

I do, since it would be kind of interesting to see a new star in the night sky for a little while as, er, some fairly huge explosions went off. Plus with any luck, the resultant gravitational wobbliness would somehow set off a chain reaction that would result in Earth orbiting Jupiter.
Ok, that couldn't happen, but the view would be nice (apart from the radiation.)

Yes, I will agree it is rather enjoyable to ponder and imagine the potential for beauty and the like in such things as the interaction between celestial bodies.

Probably have bad repercussions though.

I suppose it would, on a pretty huge scale. But what an incredible way to die! No pain, no waiting, just the greatest fireworks display in the universe followed by instantaneous explosive discorparation as the shockwave hits you.

I don't think that would happen. Don't shock waves need a medium to travel through?

Sorry, should have specified... I was thinking about a chunk of something big hitting the Earth. Although it is good to see that sloppy thinking when it comes to science will not go unnoticed here.

dude jus think a small chunk of pluto hitting earth .. it would be hella cool ( prolyl wont destroy earth but yea )