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To: wideminded

However, that law does not fit all planets and is pretty suspect.


20 posted on 04/05/2006 8:11:33 PM PDT by RadioAstronomer (Senior member of Darwin Central)
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To: RadioAstronomer
However, that law does not fit all planets and is pretty suspect.

According to the chart in the link, the correspondence looks pretty good, when one includes a small constant term, except for Neptune. I realize that this is a phenomenological law. I don't know so much about astronomy; IIRC, I actually read about Bode's Law sometime in elementary school and my knowledge of the planets probably didn't procede much further.

34 posted on 04/06/2006 10:54:47 AM PDT by wideminded
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