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peterabbit456 OP t1_ixriwbj wrote

Reply to comment by RedHerringxx in Mars may be slowly ripping its largest moon apart by peterabbit456

No, there is something called the Roche limit.

Moons inside that limiting distance will be ripped apart. I think only Saturn and Mars has moons inside the limit. You can see what happened at Saturn.

(Edit: There is a much better response about this, higher up. If I read it right, Uranus and Jupiter are also ripping moons apart.)

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