Asteroids: The discovery of asteroids
December 6th, 2009
During the 18th century, astronomers were fascinated by a mathematical expression called Bode’s law. It appeared to predict the locations of the known planets, but with one exception… Bode’s law suggested there should be a planet between Mars and Jupiter. When Sir William Herschel discovered Uranus, the seventh planet, in 1781, at a distance that [...]