If Neptune Moves, We’re All Screwed

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Did you know that if a gravitational event pushed Neptune off its current orbit by as little as .1 percent, Mercury and Venus could collide? A slightly larger change in Neptune’s orbit could put Earth on a collision course with one of our neighbors as well.

Fortunately, scientists don’t think this will happen within the next billion years or so, but what if? What happens next? Before the inevitable planetary cataclysm, that is.