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A LETTER has been addressed by Mr. D. D. Heath to the Editor of NATURE on the statical problem involved in “G. R.'s” approximate method of finding Roche's limit. This letter has been submitted to me, and I have thus been led to look more closely into “G. R.'s” proof, which I adopted in a recent letter to NATURE (April 20, 1893, p. 581). Mr. Heath shows that both “G. R.” and I have omitted the factor 2 from our result, and I now see besides that a statical solution is insufficient for the problem in question.
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DARWIN, G. Roche's Limit. Nature 48, 54 (1893). https://doi.org/10.1038/048054b0
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