Inclined comet collision time

For a population with randomized vertical phases, orbital inclination $I$, and $R_p\ll a_{p}I$, the effective volume probability near the planetary plane is proportional to ${\Sigma }_c/(a_{p}I)$. The collision time then scales as $I{Q}^{3/2}{M}_p^{-2/3}{a}_p^2$, at fixed stellar mass and planetary mass density. An individual inclined Kepler orbit whose orbital nodes do not intersect the planet's orbit need not collide at all.