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In celestial mechanics, the Roche limit (pronounced /ʁoʃ/ in IPA, similar to the sound of rosh), sometimes referred to as the Roche radius, is the distance within which a celestial body, held together only by its own gravity, will disintegrate due to a second celestial body's tidal forces exceeding the first body's gravitational self-attraction. Inside the Roche limit, orbiting material disperses and forms rings whereas outside the limit material tends to coalesce. The term is named after Édouard Roche, who is the French astronomer who first calculated this theoretical limit in 1848.
Usage examples of "roche limit".
Roche tides, Roche Limit-that seems to be a balance point between tide and some other force, maybe the same force that changes your orbit if you pass too close to Gold.
Roche tides, Roche Limit that seems to be a balance point between tide and some other force, maybe the same force that changes your orbit if you pass too close to Gold.
If ye want her t' hold together for another thirteen hours, then you'll have t' get her well past that bloody singularity's Roche limit.
In Levoy's s-scenario Goldblatt's World would have dropped very close to Levoy's Star, with its per perihelion actually inside the neutron star's Roche Limit.
In Levoy's s-scenario Goldblatt's World would have dropped very close to Levoy's Star, with its perihelion actually inside the neutron star's Roche Limit.
Suppose Earth were orbiting a giant primary like Saturn just outside its Roche limit, with one side phase-locked toward it.
They took off from similar pits, riding the anti-grav beams upward like motes mounting the vertical shaft of a searchlight until at last they reached the Roche Limit and could thrust with their own jets.
They took off from similar pits, riding the anti-gray beams upward like motes mounting the vertical shaft of a searchlight until at last they reached the Roche Limit and could thrust with their own jets.
Some of the moons are very close in, but the smallest orbit is still outside the Roche limit that determines how close a moon can orbit before gravitational forces pull it apart.