Is it possible to propel Pluto out of its orbit?

Question

Pluto is pretty small. Do have technology that could push it out of the solar system?

Answer 1

If mankind put all its effort, I'm talking turning Disneyworld into a factory kinda effort, I bet we could make it move a little after a few hundred years.

1) We could alter the course of some of the larger object circling the sun, asteroid and comets and some such, so that they hit Pluto on whichever side is facing the sun at the time. This would add bring it out of its orbit little by little. OR you could get it closer the the sun by making its orbit more elliptical so it could be propelled out of the solar system using a second phase.

2) We could also put a mass driver on the surface of Pluto which would begin launching chunks of Pluto into space in the opposite direction we want Pluto to go. Solar power would by nye useless that distance from the sun so quite a few nuclear generators would most likely be needed.

Both of these ideas would take a loooooong time and would be ridiculously expensive. I would guesstimate the total cost of hurling Pluto at God would cost more that the entire Gross Domestic Product of the planet Earth over several years.

Answer 2

Only a gravitational encounter with a large object would ever cause Pluto's orbit to become unbounded. Since all large objects capable of such an interaction have long ago been ejected from the solar system, captured as moons or planets, or have entered into orbital resonances with other Kuiper belt objects, I would say that this would be virtually impossible

Answer 3

Not by any human standard of technology.

An object of immense size that impacted with Pluto...might cause it to shift it's orbit....but....the odds of Pluto actually leaving our solar system might be pretty high.

Answer 4

We don't have the technology to get to Pluto, much less think about changing its orbit.

Answer 5

First of all, WHY in the WORLD would we want to do that?

My work here is done.