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If you are interested in patterns in the solar-system, then check out the Titus-Bode Law: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titius–Bode_law https://en.m.wikipedia
by NeoTar 3y ago
If you are interested in patterns in the solar-system, then check out the Titus-Bode Law: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titius–Bode_law https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titius–Bode_law
Basically the inner planets seem to follow a pattern in their spacing from the Sun - and some of the outer-planets which were actually discovered after the law...
...but it's not a great correlation, and you need to have some hacks (e.g. including Ceres as a planet) to make it work...
So, mainstream Astronomy has relegated it to the edges of the field, and into the realm of amateurs and crackpots.
It's interesting though that apparently a similar pattern in the distances between planets seems to occur in those systems with multiple extrasolar planets that we have observed. But it still may be a mathematical artefact.
- deprecative 3y agoTo be fair, Ceres was considered a planet at one point and it is now the closest dwarf planet to Earth. So, in that sense it is a planet but it is not a major planet.
- dr_dshiv 3y agoPlus asteroid belt
- akomtu 3y agoOne way to explain this curiously geometric composition of the solar system is to note the analogy with drum modes or even electron shells: suppose the sun's gravity produces a very slow oscillation that creates a stable pattern of nodes and antinodes, and planets naturally slide into those spots over billions of years.