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[-] Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world 15 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 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.

[-] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 7 months ago

Thank you for doing the math on that.

[-] Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world 2 points 7 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.

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