if you shot a gun on the moon, what would the bullet do?

Answer 1

It would go a LONG ways before it hit the lunar surface, since there's no aerodynamic friction loss since there's no atmosphere.

Bullets are self contained and will project a bullet without an atmosphere.

The Moon's escape velocity is considerable lower than that of Earth, at 2.38 km/s vs. 11.19 km/s, but most guns available to the public have muzzle velocities of not more than 0.350 km/s


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muzzle_velocity

Answer 2

The bullet will go towards moon surface and will penetrate into it.This is when the gun is shot bu astraunaut who landed on moon. If you shot a gun from earth, this will not go to the moon it will fall down when it comes in the earth gravitational pull .

Answer 3

It would fly off into space and keep going. That is assuming of course that you can get the gun to fire in the vacuum of space. But, assuming you can, it would just keep going because there is nothing in space that will oppose it other than another planet or sun.

Answer 4

nothing you need oxygen to react with the gunpowder to to shoot the bullet. There is no oxygen on the moon.

Answer 5

It would fly into the moons orbit and then just float around the moon.

Answer 6

IT WOULDN'T EVEN REACH MOON....
IT WILL BE LIKE A MINDLESS FISH SWIMMING IN THE BIG BLUE...

Answer 7

it would escape the moon's gravity by exceeding escape velocity.

Answer 8

most likely it will falls back on your head or someone's head. good luck.
joe