Credit where credit is due
Larry Niven, planet Jinx. I just had to think it through in light of Nick Hoffman’s article. Niven got one thing wrong, though. Jinx is so elongated that the Ends stick right out of the atmosphere. That could never happen even if the moon started out THAT elongated. When the tidal force eased off, the Ends would settle down to the hight of a reasonable mountain. Especially on Jinx, whose surface gravity is three quarters higher than Earth’s.