RE: Roche limit

>Date: Sat, 28 Sep 91 00:24:06 PDT
>From: Marc Alexandrovich Volovic [email removed]
>Subject: (2936) Roche Limit
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>[email removed] writes:
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>  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.

Ooops.  Ok.  It's my own fault for not checking facts before I sound off.  I
have that nasty habit.  Usually my memory is excellent for trivia of that sort,
and I tend to rely on it to the exclusion of other sources of information.
Hopefully, I will have learned my lesson from this semi-public humiliation  8+)

Seriously, tho, thanks for straightening me out about that.

Paul.
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