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THE size of tidal fragments of a body composed of rock or ice, according to Jeffreys1, would exceed 200 km. Since primary tidal stresses are tensile, they would elongate the disrupted body in the direction toward the other body, thus producing a long axis in this direction and tearing the disrupted body into disks the thickness of which might be, as Jeffreys suggests more than 200 km.
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PALMER, P. Size of Fragments resulting from Tidal Disintegration. Nature 173, 499 (1954). https://doi.org/10.1038/173499a0
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