Roche Limit (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

noun Astronomy.
  1. the minimum distance below which a moon orbiting a celestial body would be disrupted by tidal forces or below which a moon would not have formed.
noun
  1. the distance from the centre of a body, such as a planet, at which the tidal forces are stronger than the mutual gravitational attraction between two adjacent orbiting objects
    Roche Limit (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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