Titius-Bode law

Coincidentally, it was also almost exactly where the Titius-Bode law predicted a planet would be.

Attempts have been made to determine a relationship between these orbital distances (for example, the Titius-Bode law), but no such theory has been accepted.

They were counted as separate planets, despite the fact that they shared an orbit as defined by the Titius-Bode law.

In part because of the Titius-Bode law, the first four minor planets were at first labeled full-fledged planets.

According to the now-discredited Titius-Bode law, a planet was believed to exist between Mars and Jupiter.

Results from simulations of planetary formation support the idea that a randomly chosen stable planetary system will likely satisfy a Titius-Bode law.

Such power-laws may be a consequence of collapsing-cloud models of planetary and satellite systems possessing various symmetries; see Titius-Bode law.

Another problem of limited sample sizes in astronomy, here practical rather than essential, is in the Titius-Bode law on spacing of satellites in an orbital system.

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.

The discovery of Neptune in 1846 led to the discrediting of the Titius-Bode law in the eyes of scientists, because its orbit was nowhere near the predicted position.

Examples of other observed phenomena sometimes described as laws include the Titius-Bode law of planetary positions, Zipf's law of linguistics, Moore's law of technological growth.

It is named after the German astronomer Johann Daniel Titius, best known for formulating the Titius-Bode law along with Johann Elert Bode.

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.

His work didn't become famous until it was picked up a few years later by another German, Johann Bode, and the relation he discovered is usually called the Titius-Bode law, or just Bode's law."

On January 1, 1801, Giuseppe Piazzi, Chair of Astronomy at the University of Palermo, Sicily, found a tiny moving object in an orbit with exactly the radius predicted by the Titius-Bode law.

At the close of the 18th century, he organised the "Celestial Police", a group of twenty-four astronomers, to prepare for a systematic search for the "missing planet" predicted by the Titius-Bode law between Mars and Jupiter.

Bode first makes mention of it in the Anleitung zur Kenntniss des gestirnten Himmels in a footnote, and although it is often officially called the Titius-Bode law, it is also commonly just called Bode's law.

This pattern, now known as the Titius-Bode law, predicted the semi-major axes of the six planets of the time (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn) provided one allowed for a "gap" between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.

There is no solid theoretical explanation of the Titius-Bode law, but if there is one it is possibly a combination of orbital resonance and shortage of degrees of freedom: any stable planetary system has a high probability of satisfying a Titius-Bode-type relationship.

Bode's considerations were based on the Titius-Bode law, a now discredited hypothesis which had been first proposed by Johann Daniel Titius in 1766, observing that there was a regular pattern in the semi-major axes of the orbits of known planets marred only by the large gap between Mars and Jupiter.

Publication in London of David Gregory's The elements of astronomy, physical and geometrical... Done into English, containing the first recorded use in English of the word Physics in its modern scientific sense and the first mention of a series approximating the Titius-Bode law on celestial orbits.