Hill sphere

with regards to an astronomical body, the region in which it dominates the attraction of satellites
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Hill sphere

Summary

Hill sphere is a rule[1]. It draws 429 Wikipedia views per month (rule category, ranking #9 of 87).[2]

Key Facts

  • Hill sphere's image is recorded as Lagrange points2.svg[3].
  • Hill sphere's image is recorded as Earth-moon-gravitational-potential-3d.gif[4].
  • Hill sphere's image is recorded as Earth-moon-gravitational-potential.svg[5].
  • Hill sphere's instance of is recorded as rule[6].
  • George William Hill is named after Hill sphere[7].
  • Hill sphere's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/035pg3[8].
  • Hill sphere's different from is recorded as Roche limit[9].
  • Hill sphere's defining formula is recorded as r_{\mathrm{Hill}}\approx a(1-e)\sqrt[3]{\frac m{3M}}[10].
  • Hill sphere's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Mathematics[11].
  • Hill sphere's Fandom article ID is recorded as space:Hill_sphere[12].
  • Hill sphere's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 109283285[13].
  • Hill sphere's MetaSat ID is recorded as hillSphere[14].
  • Hill sphere's Bing entity ID is recorded as 5770d88e-4c53-ea54-9aea-8698573a817a[15].

Why It Matters

Hill sphere draws 429 Wikipedia views per month (rule category, ranking #9 of 87).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[16] It is known by 21 alternative names across languages and contexts.[17]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [16] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [17] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_hill-sphere_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{Hill sphere}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/hill-sphere}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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