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Johann Bode
Johann Bode
(1747-1826) was an German astronomer who is best known
for his discoveries of several notable deep sky objects and
his hypothesis about the behavior of the semi-major axes of
planets, later known as Bode's Law.
The mathematical expressions
Bode created during his work on Bode's law (also known as
Titus-Bode Law) proved highly accurate in prediction the
distances between planets.
Despite the accurate
predictions of Bode's Law, however, it was discredited with the discovery
of Neptune in 1846.
The position of Neptune deviated significantly from the
location predicted by Bode's formulas.
