800-Mile-Wide "Object" Found in Solar System

[Dr Mordrid]

Plutone = Pluto
Urano = Uranus
Nettuno = Neptune

No problem

Bodes law: a formula for calculating the distances of the planets from the sun.

Starting with 0 then 3 then 6 extend the sequence by doubling the last number: 0, 3, 6, 12, 24, 48, 96, 192, 384, 768. Next assign a number to each planet in order starting with Mercury and counting the asteroid belt as a "planet";

0 = Mercury
3 = Venus
6 = Earth
12 = Mars
24 = Asteroid Belt
48 = Jupiter
96 = Saturn
192 = Uranus
384 = Neptune
768 = Pluto

Pick any planet & add 4 to its number and divide by 10. The result is how many Astonomical Units (A.U.) that planet is from the sun. 1 A.U. is the distance between Earth and the Sun; ~93 million miles.

Ex: the number for Mars is 12. 12 + 4 = 16; 16/10 = 1.6

Mars is ~1.6 A.U from the sun; 1.6 x 93 = 148.8 million miles.

The average distance from the Sun to Mars is about 150 million.

Dr. Mordrid

[thop]

formulas like this make me wonder sometimes if the universe was made by a mathematician

[Dogbert]

Better yet, by a murcer !

[KRSESQ]

It will be most interesting to see how well Bode's Law holds up for other planetary systems, especially systems where the jovians are the innermost planets.

Kevin

[Gurm]

That's the one I was thinking of.



Hence Planet X would have to be friggin' REALLY FAR OUT. Maybe too far.

And Pluto isn't far enough out. In fact it swaps places with Neptune sometimes as the "closer" planet.

*shrug*

- Gurm