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Roche' lim"it



Pronunciation: (rōsh; Fr. rôsh), [key] Astron.
the minimum distance below which a moon orbiting a celestial body would be disrupted by tidal forces or below which a moon would not have formed.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

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