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🌙 Roche Limit Lab - 2D N-Body Tidal Breakup, Roche Potential and Ring Formation

Bring a moon toward a planet and watch an N-body rubble pile, fluid-like or bonded rigid moon stretch and break up near the Roche limit, with the rigid 1.26 and fluid 2.44 limits, the Roche potential with L1 and L2, a force-balance view and live graphs, checked against exact differential gravity, Hill radius and Kepler orbits.

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Roche Limit Lab - 2D N-Body Tidal Breakup, Roche Potential and Ring Formation ↗ Open standalone
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Bring a moon toward a planet and watch an N-body rubble pile, fluid-like or bonded rigid moon stretch and break up near the Roche limit, with the rigid 1.26 and fluid 2.44 limits, the Roche potential with L1 and L2, a force-balance view and live graphs, checked against exact differential gravity, Hill radius and Kepler orbits.

Roche limitTidal forcesPlanetary ringsN-bodyRoche lobeAstrophysics

2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install

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