• Iron Lynx
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    8 months ago

    Counterpoint:

    Orbital semimajor axis of the moon (basically the orbit radius): 384400 km

    Subtract earth’s radius: becomes 378000 km above earth’s surface at mean sea level.

    Moon radius: 1737.4 km

    tan-1(1737.4 / 378000) = 0.26 degrees

    Conclusion: at best, assuming the moon is directly overhead and any glancing contact is a success, you can deviate maximally 0.26 degrees from a dead centre hit to hit the moon.

    Good luck with that.

      • Iron Lynx
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        28 months ago

        You’re welcome! I thought it would be in the spirit of this community to put numbers to it, so that’s exactly what I did.