[TML] Bigass Planet X

[shadow at shadowgard.com]

On 18 Nov 2007 at 10:58, Eris Reddoch wrote:

> Steve Burchett wrote:
> > I remember being taught Bode's Law in my youth. I wonder if it is still
> > valid?
> > 
> > http://www.astro.cornell.edu/academics/courses/astro201/bodes_law.htm
> 
> Well, I think most of us don't view Bode's Law as a law at 
> all. It, more or less, fits the one complete...more or 
> less...model of a star system that we have (Sol's), but in 
> science one case does not a tread make, much less a law. 
> OTOH, Traveller (and most of us) use something like Bode's Law 
> to generate our fictional star systems. :)

There was an article in Analog decades back that showed that if you 
allow for "half intervals" at the outer sections, it fits not only 
the planets, but the then known satellites of the outer planets.

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Leonard Erickson (aka shadow)
shadow at shadowgard dot com