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'''Bode's Law''' notes that the distances of the planets from the [[Sun]] follow a simple mathematical pattern. The law holds true for Mercury, Venus, Earth, the asteroids, Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus. Neptune and Pluto are perhaps the only exceptions to this law among the eleven planetary and [[dwarf planet]]ary bodies in the [[solar system]].

'''Bode's Law''' notes that the distances of the planets from the [[Sun]] follow a simple mathematical pattern. The law holds true for Mercury, Venus, Earth, the asteroids, Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus. Neptune and Pluto are perhaps the only exceptions to this law among the eleven planetary and [[dwarf planet]]ary bodies in the [[solar system]]. In 1972, the Canadian astronomer Michael Ovenden proposed the law similar to Bode's.<ref name="Flandern">{{cite book|title=Dark Matter, Missing Planets and New Comets: Paradoxes Resolved, Origins Illuminated |author=Tom Van Flandern |publisher=North Atlantic Books |year=1998 |chapter=Do Planets Explode? |page=158 |isbn=978-15564-32682 |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=fq8trtkOvMEC}}</ref>

== The Formula ==

== The Formula ==

The Titius-Bode Law did not survive mainstream scrutiny, primarily because most astronomers regarded the more-inward position of Neptune as a fatal counterexample to it. But since that event, the scientific community has seen the discoveries, decades apart, of Pluto and Eris. These two dwarf world have vastly inclined and highly eccentric orbits that, nevertheless, have positions that would almost seem to ''conform'' to the Titius-Bode Law were Neptune not present. Findings like these cast doubt on the earlier decision to abandon this Law and suggest an alternative explanation: that [[God]] in fact set the planets in their orbits according to this Law, but a subsequent cataclysmic event or sequence significantly altered the elegant mathematical pattern of the outer reaches of the solar system.

The Titius-Bode Law did not survive mainstream scrutiny, primarily because most astronomers regarded the more-inward position of Neptune as a fatal counterexample to it. But since that event, the scientific community has seen the discoveries, decades apart, of Pluto and Eris. These two dwarf world have vastly inclined and highly eccentric orbits that, nevertheless, have positions that would almost seem to ''conform'' to the Titius-Bode Law were Neptune not present. Findings like these cast doubt on the earlier decision to abandon this Law and suggest an alternative explanation: that [[God]] in fact set the planets in their orbits according to this Law, but a subsequent cataclysmic event or sequence significantly altered the elegant mathematical pattern of the outer reaches of the solar system.

== Reference ==

== References ==

* Bishard, Clint. "[http://www.jesuscreated.org/Scientific/Order_Orbits.php Order in the Orbits: Our Mathematically Minded Creator]." <http://www.jesuscreated.org/>, January 13, 2007. Accessed January 24, 2008.

* Bishard, Clint. "[http://www.jesuscreated.org/Scientific/Order_Orbits.php Order in the Orbits: Our Mathematically Minded Creator]." <http://www.jesuscreated.org/>, January 13, 2007. Accessed January 24, 2008.

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[[Category:Astronomy]]

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