QUESTION:
If Pluto wasn't in it's place in space, would that affect Earth?

ANSWER from Dave Zurek on April 23, 1996:
   A quick answer to your question is that if Pluto wasn't there that
it would have very little effect on the Earth. Lets see if I can explain this.
If you and a friend go to big calm lake and you stand very far apart on
the shore. One of you places a small boat in the water and the other throws
a small rock into the water. The rock creates waves but because the rock
was so small the waves are small and they don't reach the little boat. If
a much bigger rock was to be thrown into the lake it would create large
waves which would cause the small boat to go up and down. So if you think
of the Earth as being the small boat and Pluto as being the small rock
and the solar system as the lake, Pluto would have little if not no effect
on the Earth if it wasn't there. Because Pluto is very small in our
solar system and so far away from the Earth that like the small rock it
has very little effect on the Earth.