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Uploaded by on Apr 2, 2010

http://www.greenleaf.dk/projects/sph_astronomy
A moon orbits a planet far inside the Roche Limit and tidal forces breaks it apart.
Viscosity in the material disk transfers momentum from the inner parts to the outer parts which makes the inner particles fall to the planet while the outer parts are pushed into higher orbits

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