Why Won't Pluto Collide with Neptune

question 26

Multiple Choice

Why won't Pluto collide with Neptune?

• A)Pluto orbits the Sun exactly two times for every three Neptune orbits, which ensures they never come close together.
• B)Pluto is always much farther from the Sun than Neptune.
• C)Actually, a collision of the two is inevitable within the next billion years.
• D)Pluto's orbit never comes anywhere close to Neptune's orbit.

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