: the distance from a planet's center within which a satellite can neither approach nor reside without being disrupted by tidal forces
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That places it outside a key location termed the Roche limit.
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John Timmer, Ars Technica, 8 Feb. 2023
The surprise is that both rings sit well outside the Roche limit, which is at about 1750 km.
—The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 21 Apr. 2023
All of these rings also sit within the Roche limit.
—The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 21 Apr. 2023
Known as the Roche limit, scientists have long believed any object with a gravitational field can't form a ring beyond a certain distance.
—Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 10 Feb. 2023
All the rings around Saturn, for example, lie inside of the planet’s Roche limit.
—Jackie Wattles, CNN, 8 Feb. 2023
And some of it crossed the Roche limit — the area around a planet where a body can no longer hold its shape and is crushed into billions of pieces, forming rings.
—John Wenz, Discover Magazine, 20 July 2018
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John Timmer, Ars Technica, 8 Feb. 2023
The surprise is that both rings sit well outside the Roche limit, which is at about 1750 km.
—The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 21 Apr. 2023
All of these rings also sit within the Roche limit.
—The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 21 Apr. 2023
Known as the Roche limit, scientists have long believed any object with a gravitational field can't form a ring beyond a certain distance.
—Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 10 Feb. 2023
All the rings around Saturn, for example, lie inside of the planet’s Roche limit.
—Jackie Wattles, CNN, 8 Feb. 2023
And some of it crossed the Roche limit — the area around a planet where a body can no longer hold its shape and is crushed into billions of pieces, forming rings.
—John Wenz, Discover Magazine, 20 July 2018
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