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Moon in Earth's Roche Limit.
   
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Moon in Earth's Roche Limit.

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This is what would happen if our moon was within Earth's Roche Limit, this is the radius of an orbital distance which is predicted to be that the gravitational pull of the earth would to great for the moon's velocity to overcome. In this simulation the Moon is just barely witin the Roche Limit of Earth.