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Originally Posted by Astromancer
Why Phoebe isn't causing chaos on the Earth is a major mystery. Phoebe is farther from Earth than the moon was, but not so much that the tides shouldn't be outrageously larger. They are larger but not nearly as large as the inverse square law would suggest. It's one of the reasons the Aliens are assumed to be around somewhere.
Extra fun, far out in the distance Luna has been rediscovered still orbiting the Earth but about six million miles away. Plus there is a Ceres sized object named Hecate also in orbit around the Earth, about as far from the Earth as the moon was.
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Tidal effects are an inverse cube relationship, not an inverse square relationship.