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THE notice in NATURE (July 15, p. 89) respecting Dr. Fountain's work on Roche's limit for satellites brings to my recollection some estimates which I made many years ago with respect to the stability of satellites moving close to the surface of Mars (Trans. Roy. Dub. Soc., 1897, vol. vi.).
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JOLY, J. Roche's Limits for Satellites. Nature 110, 179 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/110179a0
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