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Define the Roche Limit.
 
  What will be an ideal response?

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Jupiter and the other jovian planets are sometimes called gas giants. In what sense is this term misleading?
 
  A) The materials they are made of are not the kinds of thing we usually think of as gases.
  B) They actually contain relatively little material in a gaseous state.
  C) Actually, it's a great description, because these worlds are big and gaseous throughout.
  D) They are not in any sense giants.


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Reply #1 on: Jul 27, 2018
Answer to Question 1

It is a region where the tidal stresses of a planet's gravity would break apart any major moon that tried to orbit that close; it lies about 2.5 planetary radii out.

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