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Tides are purely about relative differences in gravity between positions, though, not about differences in pull between two bodies. You can still be at a point where the Earth's gravity is greater than the Moon's while on the surface of the Moon without anything floating away and while comfortably outside the Roche limit. In fact, such a situation must necessarily exist outside the Roche limit for any body.


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