Catastrophic disruption threshold is a term used in planetary science and astrophysics to describe the minimum amount of energy required to completely break apart a celestial body (like an asteroid or satellite) so that it loses half or more of its total mass in a collision.
C constant depends on the effect of both tides and rotation.
δ measures orbital distance of the moon from the planet.
Qᴛᴅ (tidal-influenced catastrophic disruption threshold) decreases with the cube of distance of moon from planet— the closer the moon, the easier to disrupt.
Source: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ae04e4
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