If the moon's gravity is only one third of Earth's then would it be possible to tee up a golf ball?

Question

In documentary films, They show one of the astronauts teeing up a golf ball and driving it into space. If the ball would float in air wouldn't it hover above the tee?

Answer 1

The Moon's gravity is less than Earth, but it is not zero, so the ball would not float like it would in the space station. Apollo 14 astronaut Alan Shepard hit two golf balls on the Moon, but he did not tee them up. He just dropped them on the ground and hit them. The video can be found in the source. You need real video to view it.

Answer 2

Firstly,
The moons gravity is 1/6 that of earth..
Secondly,
Of course it would be possible to tee up a golf ball ?
Why wouldn't it ?

Answer 3

The moon’s gravity is more like one sixth the Earth’s but the principle is the same. Any gravity would make the ball come down, but it would come down slower in weaker gravity. That’s why the astronaut drove the ball so far.

Answer 4

There's enough gravity on the moon to keep the golf ball on the tee. It weighs less, but it's not completely weightless

Answer 5

Why do you think the ball would float in air? The moon has gravity, just not as strong as here on earth, so things appear to be lighter, not weigthless.

Answer 6

Of course.

The force of gravity there is less, meaning objects would fall more slowly.

You could probably drop the ball from shoulder height and get all your practice swings in before it hit the ground too, if you're quick.

Answer 7

Yes. But instead of hitting the ball 200 yds. it will go 600 yards. Then you can tell John Daly how YOU do it!!

Answer 8

ya it would

do a yahoo search of "moon landing a hoax" and check out some of the sites on there, some of it is very convincing