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Re: Today's jaw dropper



On Sun, 5 Oct 1997, John Mallinckrodt wrote:

"travel completely around the Moon and reach the astronaut at a point 10.0
cm below its initial height."

So the moon must have an atmosphere? If perfect vacuum, wouldn't the
bullet be in orbit, and therefor NOT fall 10cm after a single orbit?

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Not in orbit at all, in fact there is no way it would make it around the
moon! The escape velocity from the moon is close to 0.00001 c. In fact the
calculated speed would be more than enough to get the object clear out of
the solar system. Maybe even if it was fired directly toward the center of
the moon!

Hugh

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