(urth) Cumaean???

Dave Lebling dlebling at hyraxes.com
Sat Dec 15 08:34:44 PST 2007


The Roche Limit for the Earth-Moon system is about 9500km. I doubt that 
Lune is that close.

Wikipedia can be your friend.

-- Dave Lebling, aka vizcacha

Recursive Loop wrote:
> Moving it closer brings it closer to the Roche Limit. Cross that line and the Moon breaks up,
> IIRC. I'm not sure where the Roche Limit is in the Earth-Moon system (looked through a few books
> on the shelves, but haven't found it yet).




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