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   The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.  2000.
 
Roche limit
 
PRONUNCIATION:  rsh
NOUN: The smallest distance at which a natural satellite can orbit a celestial body without being torn apart by the larger body's gravitational force. The distance depends on the densities of the two bodies and the orbit of the satellite.
ETYMOLOGY:After Edouard Albert Roche (1820–1883), French mathematician.
 
 
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