Titius-Bode Law
A law giving the approximate distances of the planets from the which was formulated by Johann Bode and Johann Titius around 1770.
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Bode's Law - [for J. E. Bode], also known as Titius's law or the Titius-Bode law, empirical relationship between the mean distances of the planets from the sun. If each number in the series 0, 3, 6, 12, 24,&thinsp...
Titius-Bode law
The Titius?Bode law is a hypothesis that the bodies in some orbital systems, including the Sun's, orbit at semi-major axis in an exponential function of planetary sequence....
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empirical rule giving the approximate distances of planets from the Sun.
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Also known as the Titius-Bode Law or Titius's law. First postulated by Johann Daniel Titius of Wittenberg in 1766 and published by Johann Elert Bode in 1772.
0, 3, 6, 12, 24, 48, 96, 192, 384 ...
to each number add 4: ...
Towards the end of the 18th century the Titius-Bode law was found as a simple arithmetic expression which gave the distances of the known planets from the Sun. (The Titius-Bode relation fails for Neptune and Pluto.
On January 1, 1801, Giuseppe Piazzi, Chair of Astronomy at the University of Palermo, Sicily, found a tiny moving object in the exact location predicted by the Titius-Bode Law.
He is best known for formulating the Titius-Bode law, and for using this rule to predict the existence of a celestial object at 2.8 AU from the sun.
In the eighteenth century a fairly simple rule, now known as the Titius-Bode law (Interlude 6-1), seemed to "predict" the radii of the planetary orbits remarkably well.
8 AU from the Sun by the Titius-Bode law, partly as a consequence of the discovery, by Sir William Herschel in 1781, of the planet Uranus at the distance "predicted" by the law.
Additional impetus was given by a mathematical curiosity that has come to be known as Bode's law or the Titius-Bode law.
The German astronomer Wilhelm Bode ("bo-deh") published the law (without giving credit) in 1768, , and it is therefore often referred to as the "Titius-Bode law," or sometimes just "Bode's law" (a short name helps!).
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that links the distances of the planets from the Sun. Strictly speaking it should be called Titius' Law since it was discovered by J. D. Titius several years before J. E. Bode popularised it in 1772. Some refer to it as the Titius-Bode Law.
 See also: Planet, Orbit, Earth, Distance, Sun
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