Usually means: Minimum distance preventing celestial fragmentation.
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  1. Roche Limit: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
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  3. Roche Limit: Extragalactic Astronomy
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Definitions from Wiktionary (Roche limit)

noun:  (astronomy) The closest a satellite can approach its parent body before the gravitational forces holding it together are overwhelmed by tidal forces pulling it apart.

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