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Is Roche lobe a planetary object?

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Is Roche lobe a planetary object?

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Not really. It’s a region of space around a star in a binary system. Anything orbiting the star wil be gravitationaly bound to it and will continue to orbit that star. If the star expands beyond the Roche lobe then the material will fall into the other star.

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