Roche Limit

[email removed] writes:

>>The "--" notes the number of rings, number of moons.  I determine
>>number of sattelites, randomly figure the orbits, and shatter
>>any that fall within the roche limit.
>>
>
>Ahhh, yes.  The Roche limit.  I read many years ago, that Luna is inside
>Terra's Roche Limit, yet Luna doesn't break up from tidal stresses.  Does
>anyone know if that question has been settled?  Not being a planetologist
>type, I sort of lost track of the question.
>
>
>Paul.

  Roche limit is quoted (in the Britannica) to be 2.5 diameters of the
primary. The 380 odd thousand kilometers of Luna's orbit are quite outside
the limit.

Marc.