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Bode's law (iou)



Bode's law noun phr. M19.
[Johann E. Bode (1747-1826), German astronomer, who drew attention to the law; it had been discovered earlier by another German, Johann D. Titius (1729-96).]
Astronomy. An empirical formula giving the approximate distances of several planets from the sun as a geometric progression in powers of 2, starting at the orbit of Mercury.