[Lonesome in Massachussets]

As you may recall, I paid $105 bucks for:

It is rich in detail, but sadly, far too little mathematics or equations. The interesting thing is that contemporary American astronomers accepted the discovery with a shrug. The mathematical technique daunting, and laborious, but the result more a matter of luck than inspiration. Both Le Verrier and Adams had assumed that the unseen planet's orbit would conform to the completely spurious "Bode's Law", and in doing had to impose a great deal of eccentricity on the resulting hypothetical orbit, and attribute far more mass to hypothetical planet than Neptune actually has.

[SunkenCiv]

I think you said she made you sleep on the couch after that purchase. 😁

Since the perturbance to those orbits was for a short time (assuming that the observations should just be thrown out, as some claim), if there’s another larger body, it’s probably well out of the ecliptic. And dark.

I prefer to refer to it as “Bode’s Mnemonic”, btw.

[SunkenCiv]

Whoops, “should *not* just be thrown out”