Bode's Rule

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Here is a Beautiful Mathematical Relationship, concerning the distances between the orbits of the planets in the solar system. This system helped Scientists discover the planet Neptune on paper before any one ever saw it. Then they discovered that you can see it with the smallest telescope.

  1. Bode's rule given as follows: Write down the sequence
    1. 0, 3, 6, 12, 24, 48, 96, 192, 384
    To each number add 4
    1. 4, 7, 10, 16, 28, 52, 100, 196, 388
    Divide each by 10.
    1. .4, .7, 1.0, 1.6, 2.8, 5.2, 10.0, 19.6, 38.8
    See Table Of the first eight results
    1. (0.4, 0.7, 1.0, 1.6, 2.8, 5.2, 10.0, 19.6, 38.8)
  2. Values given for Bode's Number     in the astronomical unit, (A.U.) the distance from the earth to the sun 93,000,000 miles. the distance between the planet of interest in terms of the ratio of and the bode's rule result agree very closely.
  3. No one can explain why this is such, but the fact that is does certainly is intriguing.
  4. Here is another relationship of interest.

Planet kilo × 106miles a.u. Bode's % diff Period yrs
Mercury 35.98 22,359,172 .387 .4 +3.25% .241
Venus 108.21 67,238,576 .723 .7 -3.18% .615
Earth 149.61 92,957,130 1.0 1.0 0.0% 1.0
Mars 227.94 141,635,350 1.524 1.6 -4.98% 1.89
Asteroids 413.94 257,210,391 2.767 2.8 N/A 4.614
Jupiter 778.3 483,613,199 5.203 5.2 +.05% 11.86
Saturn 1427.0 886,696,691 9.539 10.0 -4.6% 29.46
Uranus 2869.0 1,782,713,950 19.178 19.6 2.17%  84.02
Neptune 4498.0 2,794,927,620 30.057 moon moon   164.78
Pluto 5900.0 3,666,090,030 39.440 38.8     248.4
 

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