Roche Cavity

by Lewis Carroll

Roche Cavity – A sphere located around a star in a binary system, which is the boundary of the equipotential surface on which the first Lagrange point is located. In the most general form, for a body in the Roche cavity, the gravitational force of the star, which is located in this cavity, prevails.

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