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Roche limit in American English
noun: the minimum distance below which a moon orbiting a celestial body would be disrupted by tidal forces or below which a moon would not have formed

Roche limit in British English
the lowest possible altitude at which a natural satellite can form and orbit, withstanding the fragmenting force of the gravitational pull of a planet or other primary celestial body
noun: the distance from the centre of a body, such as a planet, at which the tidal forces are stronger than the mutual gravitational attraction between two adjacent orbiting objects

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