Roche Limit

The Roche Limit, also called Roche radius, is a metric in celestial mechanics, the distance within which a celestial body, held together only by its own force of gravity, will disintegrate due to a second celestial body's tidal forces exceeding the first body's gravitational self-attraction.

• It is an astronomic Metric.

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