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Celestial Mechanics
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Where is the Roche limit most famously observed in the Solar System?
It is most famously seen in the ring systems around Saturn, where icy debris orbits inside the planet’s tidal disruption zone. The Roche limit explains why moons can be torn apart by gravity.
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