zompist bboard

...desserts that destroy all life so far devolped. Like evil blancmanges from the planet Skyron in the Andromeda Galaxy? :P I found that unless you want the moon really really close, Roche's limit isn't all that much of a problem. Basically, provided the planet and moon have the same density, the m...

There is a section on calculating data about moons at World-Builders.org , which I assume many people here are aware of. That site was really helpful when I was doing all this for my own planet. The equations for this particular problem given there are different to butsuri's, but they look derived f...