David Kipping

Venus is 0.7.

The Earth is 1.

And Mars is 1.5.

So there seems to be a pattern.

And I think it's like a fraction of 1.5 or something in terms of like take the last one and just multiply that 1.5 and you roughly get to the next one.

And is it dependent upon the mass of the planet?

No.

It's just purely their spacing.

So it was – yeah, it has some problems.

It doesn't particularly work that well.

It predicts there's a planet where the asteroid belt is.

And obviously there isn't one there.

But maybe you could argue something happened.

That's probably why the asteroid belt is there, right?

But then more problematically, people have tried to apply this to exoplanets.

So you've got these multi-planet systems, and we know of like maybe three or four planets, and there's gaps.

And so you can say, okay, let's use Bode's law and predict, okay, there should be a planet right here.

And then people have done the observations.

They've like dialed in and put all the telescopes on and be like, where's that planet?

Sometimes they found the planets there, but usually not.