Comments on: The Rochefort Limit. https://scientificgamer.com/the-rochefort-limit/ Science, gaming, and all things in between. Wed, 01 Jul 2026 22:05:15 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.7.36 By: The Peter Harrison Planetarium: A Review. « The Scientific Gamer https://scientificgamer.com/the-rochefort-limit/#comment-181 Mon, 28 May 2012 11:01:41 +0000 http://scientificgamer.wordpress.com/?p=557#comment-181 [...] by Uranus’s gravity and then somehow reforming afterwards. If you remember my post about the Roche limit you should be able to figure out why this second assertion is bollocks: moons are pulled apart when [...]

]]> By: innokenti https://scientificgamer.com/the-rochefort-limit/#comment-180 Tue, 21 Feb 2012 21:01:53 +0000 http://scientificgamer.wordpress.com/?p=557#comment-180 Cool. Just thought it might have some significance.

]]> By: hentzau https://scientificgamer.com/the-rochefort-limit/#comment-179 Tue, 21 Feb 2012 10:11:27 +0000 http://scientificgamer.wordpress.com/?p=557#comment-179 It means you should multiply R root cubed PM over Pm by 2.44.

(Seriously though, it’s just a number that pops out of the immensely complicated derivation for liquid bodies. There’s no real significance to it.)

]]> By: innokenti https://scientificgamer.com/the-rochefort-limit/#comment-178 Tue, 21 Feb 2012 10:03:04 +0000 http://scientificgamer.wordpress.com/?p=557#comment-178 So what’s the significance of 2.44 in the Roche equation?

]]> By: Josh, 7, from London https://scientificgamer.com/the-rochefort-limit/#comment-177 Mon, 20 Feb 2012 10:54:14 +0000 http://scientificgamer.wordpress.com/?p=557#comment-177 :D

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