The spheroids named for this man model rotating stars and predict gravity darkening near their equators.
The spheroids named for this man model rotating stars and predict gravity darkening near their equators. Independently of George Hill, he discovered the Hill sphere, within which stable orbits in a three-body system are possible. That sphere extends between the L1 and L2 Lagrange points, and another construct named for him has a node at the L1 point. One of those constructs fills with material during mass transfer in semidetached binary systems. In addition to introducing his namesake lobes, he proposed that the rings of Saturn were generated by tidal breakup of a large moon. FTP, name this Frenchman who calculated the distance at which tidal forces from a primary overwhelm the self-gravity of a secondary, known as his limit.
The spheroids named for this man model rotating stars and predict gravity darkening near their equators.
Édouard {Roche}