Multiple Choice
What is the Roche limit?
A) the mass a planet must exceed to have satellites
B) the greatest distance from a planet that its satellites can orbit without falling into the Sun
C) the distance at which a moon held together by gravity may be broken apart by the planet's gravitational attraction
D) the distance astronomers can see into a planet's clouds
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