| − | '''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> | + | '''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=https://books.google.com/books?id=fq8trtkOvMEC}}</ref> |