Roche Limit

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Nov 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000eaa..booke4476.&link_type=abstract

"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 4476. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Solar System, Solar System Models And Concepts

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The minimum distance from a planet at which a satellite can resist being gravitationally disrupted by tidal forces. It is given by 2.456R(ρp/ρs)1/3, where R is the planet's radius, and ρp and ρs are the densities of the planet and the satellite. This expression (without the density term) was derived in 1849 by Édouard Roche, and played a part in theories of the formation of Saturn's rings. Materi...

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