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Originally Posted by R.A.F.
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Originally Posted by Jerry
The jury is still out on Bode's law...
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Not surprising. The underlying theme of this thread is not a trivial - even the small variance suggested requires a major rewrite of cosmology. An acceleration, however small, toward the Sun would speed the demise of the solar system. Resonant states would not only mitigate this, it would explain why orbits are both planar an non-elliptical.
Bode's law is certainly not absolute, but it does suggest mildly resonant states, if not an underlying principle. We will soon have a good catalog of planatery systems, and a definite answer to this one.