Assertion: roche limit | /r/HasProperty | the distance
Facets:
value: from the primary
type: LOCATION
value: as a body
type: MANNER
value: closer in
type: LOCATION
Source sentences:
text: In celestial mechanics, the Roche limit, also called Roche radius, is 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.
text: The Roche limit is a distance, the minimum distance that a smaller object (e.g. a moon) can exist, as a body held together by its self-gravity, as it orbits a more massive body (e.g. its parent planet); closer in, and the smaller body is ripped to pieces by the tidal forces on it.
text: The Roche limit for a rigid spherical satellite is the distance, d {\displaystyle d} , from the primary at which the gravitational force on a test mass at the surface of the object is exactly equal to the tidal force pulling the mass away from the object: