Thursday, August 6, 2009

Roche limit

The Roche Limit, sometimes referred to as the Roche Radius, is the distance within which a celestial body, held together only by its own gravity, will disintegrate due to a second celestial body's tidal forces, exceeding the first body's gravitational self-attraction.Inside the Roche limit,oribiting material will tend to disperse and form rings, while outside the limit, material will tend to coalesce. The term is named after Edouard Roche, the French astronomer who first calculated this theoretical limit in 1848.
Roche Limit...is a limit between two star...when one of them over the limit....the weaker will be destroyed and become ring of the Stronger