ROCHE LIMIT


Meaning of ROCHE LIMIT in English

noun Etymology: E. A. Roche died 1883 French mathematician Date: 1889 the distance from a planet's center within which a satellite can neither approach nor reside without becoming disrupted by tidal forces

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