'We died in the gravitational tides,' Pascale said matter-of-factly.

Or the shields may be failing, which means that gravitational tides will rip us apart.

The gravitational tide between vessels and station was approximately two hundred million gravities.

But for once he was mistaken: the effect is actually the result of gravitational tides in the ionosphere.

The gravitational tides should have torn you to pieces.

On July 7, 1992, it was torn apart by Jupiter's gravitational tides.

Nor was it much consolation to know that Europa's own gravitational tides were inflicting at least equal damage on Io.

The reddish dots represented bits of matter drawn in by gravitational tides, caught in a swirling disk.

Pleiades now hung suspended below the space station, from a cable stretched taut by gravitational tides.

The others travel in more circular orbits, presumably because they are even closer to their stars and are regulated by gravitational tides.