Roche limit

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英文释义

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  1. The closest a satellite can approach its parent body before the gravitational forces holding it together are overwhelmed by tidal forces pulling it apart.
    — It might be argued, therefore, that Jupiter is so massive and its gravitational field so intense that it swept out the matter within its Roche limit very effectively.

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Roche limits plural

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Named after French astronomer Édouard Roche, who first calculated the limit in 1848.
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