"When Pluto impacts Uranus" or "Urinating Dogs of Gravitational Resonance"

[DeletedUser]

So Pluto Overlaps The Orbits Of Neptune and Uranus
There Is Even A Point where All 3 Orbits Intersect.
What Happens If There Is A Collision?

 

[DeletedUser14280]

Did you make this topic just for a chance to say "Uranus is very big"?

I think it wouldn't matter much.
If they collided, it'd be like an asteroid hitting them with lots of force, and they'd ka-splode.
That wouldn't affect us, and any fragments that came hurtling along from the collision would be pretty likely to miss us.

I mean, come on! What are the chances that Pluto, Neptune and Uranus hit each other at the same time and somehow affect Earth?

 

[DeletedUser]

So Pluto Overlaps The Orbits Of Neptune and Uranus
There Is Even A Point where All 3 Orbits Intersect.
What Happens If There Is A Collision?

Then a cartoon dog gets a very brown nose :unsure:

 

[DeletedUser]

It's not going to happen. Gravitational resonance keeps them from ever getting within less than ~100 million miles from each other.

 

[DeletedUser14280]

It's not going to happen. Gravitational resonance keeps them from ever getting within less than ~100 million miles from each other.

Well, that settles things nicely.
I guess we can move this to the questions and guides section and label it 'resolved', huh?

In continuing seriousness, Fredigar's wording in his OP meant that there wasn't a whole lot we could do to discuss this topic.

Oh WAIT! We could discuss "gravitational resonance"! That sounds interesting.
Artemis? What's GR?

 

[DeletedUser]

I guess the most basic explanation I can think of at the moment is: All 3 of them are constantly affected by gravitational pull of the others, which is part of what keeps them in their orbital patterns. Because the gravitational pull is more or less a constant, the effects will be too - which keeps their orbital pattern from changing, and thus keeps them from suddenly colliding rather than passing each other as they've always done in the past.

It is a bit more complex than that, but what would there be to discuss if I explained it perfectly?