Re: Terminal Velocity of Impacting our Moon

Brad Guth wrote:
Terminal velocity, to my understanding, is a *constant velocity*
resulting from the equilibrium of a force such as gravity and the
drag of a resisting medium, such as a planet's atmosphere.


Are we on the same page?

Sam Wormley,
Keep a good hold onto that constant velocity notion (w/o thrust
applied), replace whatever's your atmospheric density with whatever's
of SM or ISM, increase that wishful velocity factor up to 10%'c'(30,000
km/s) and utilizing stellar gravity instead of merely local gravity is
what should keep us at least within the same footnotes of that very
same page.


The simple fact is that anything move at 30,000 km/s with respect
a larger body such as the moon, will not come close to a terminal
velocity and will be vaporized upon impact.
.

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