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If you discount Neptune, do the other planets follow Titius-Bode's law?

Asked by luigirovatti (2950points) May 8th, 2023

Assumimg it’s true, I won’t linger on the why. Maybe it’s not a planet, maybe it’s deviated from its origin orbit, it doesn’t matter. I don’t want to dabble too much into pseudoscience.

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Zaku's avatar

From my memory of astronomy: yes, though the asteroid belt is in one of the places for a planet.

Let me check: yes, that’s right, for our solar system.

Note though that no one knows whether this “law” is the result of anything much other than someone looked for number patterns and found one.

It suggests though that the planets formed from an accretion disk by gravity.

RocketGuy's avatar

That “law” seems to be too simple to predict gravitational interactions between multiple planets.

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