On November 23, 1826, German astronomer Johann Elert Bode passed away. Bode is best known for his popularization of the Titius-Bode‘s law, a hypothesis that the bodies in some orbital systems, including the Sun‘s, orbit at semi-major axes in a function of planetary sequence. The formula suggests that, extending outward, each planet would be approximately twice as far from the Sun as the one before. Early Years Johann Elert Bode was born in Hamburg, Germany, the son of Johann Jakob Bode, a merchant in Hamburg, and his wife Anna Margarethe b. Kruse, as the first among nine siblings. As a … Continue reading Johann Elert Bode and the Titius-Bode Law