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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titius%E2%80%93Bode_law
“The Titius–Bode law (sometimes termed just Bode’s law) is a hypothesis that the bodies in some orbital systems, including the Sun’s, orbit at semi-major axes in a function of planetary sequence. The formula suggests that, extending outward, each planet would be approximately twice as far from the Sun as the one before. The hypothesis correctly anticipated the orbits of Ceres (in the asteroid belt) and Uranus, but failed as a predictor of Neptune’s orbit and has eventually been superseded as a theory of solar system formation. It is named for Johann Daniel Titius and Johann Elert Bode.”