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From: hutch@shark.UUCP (Stephen Hutchison)
Newsgroups: net.space
Subject: Re: Lunar artillery [sic, more like rifles shooting]
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Date: Wed, 11-Apr-84 18:45:24 EST
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Posted: Wed Apr 11 18:45:24 1984
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<bang bang - shooting at bugs in lunar gravity>

I hate to ask this, since it seems painfully obvious.
Why wouldn't intervening mountains get in the way?
The moon is not a polished sphere.

Also, the gravity of the moon is acting as a continuous acceleration
on the bullets.  It would seem to me that IF a bullet were fired in
JUST the right path to achieve an orbit, that it would last maybe two
or three orbits (at that altitude) before it decayed and fell to ground.

Hutch <not a physics major but this is worse than counterintuitive>