2024RNAAS...8..133C

We analyze adjacent local pairs of mean-motion resonances (MMRs) between three orbiting bodies designed to produce a Laplace resonant phase angle φ_L or one of its multiples Nφ_L, where integer N ≥ 2. This assumption yields a concrete pattern of Laplace resonances, very few of which (with angles φ_L and 2φ_L) have been observed in actual (extra)solar subsystems. All other MMRs face issues of proximity or remoteness of the orbits (they are too close or too far apart). We highlight one as yet unobservable MMR in each N-sequence for which these issues appear to be less acute.