The Sky at Night

Season 16, Episode 10

Episode Title: An Exploded Planet?

Air Date: 1972-09-18

Overview:

There may once have been in the solar system an extra planet, destroyed in the remote past and producing the fragments we now know as asteroids. Patrick Moore talks about the 'missing' planet and its possible connection with the numerical relationship known as Bode's Law, which has puzzled astronomers for generations.