Some of us first heard of Bode's Law[0] in childhood in the late 1950s, from reading Heinlein's "Time for the Stars"[1]. I have never forgotten a throw-away rem

Some of us first heard of Bode's Law[0] in childhood in the late 1950s, from reading Heinlein's "Time for the Stars"[1]. I have never forgotten a throw-away remark by one of the characters, when Earth's first-ever starship has for the first time entered a different planetary system, to the effect that "the astronomer types upstairs are all excited because the orbits here fit Bode's Law." [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titius%E2%80%93Bode_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titius%E2%80%93Bode_law [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_for_the_Stars https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_for_the_Stars