Roche, Édouard Albert (1820-83)

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 3961. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

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French astronomer and mathematician, fl. Montpellier, who studied the attractive force of rotating fluid bodies and discovered the Roche limit, the closest that a satellite can approach its planet and survive the stresses introduced when the nearer side tries to orbit faster than the further side. Empirically this closest distance is about 2.5 times the radius of the planet. Saturn's rings lie in...

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