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Imagine you put a canon on the top of a very tall mountain you start firing cannonballs horizontally and each time you add more gun powder to the canon which makes the next cannonball travel further before hitting the ground is it possible that at some point the cannonball will miss the ground what does this have to do with the orbit of the moon

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Answer:

Yes

Explanation:

For an object in orbit,

Centripetal force = Gravitational force

mv^2/r = GMm/r^2

v = [tex]\sqrt{GM/r[/tex]

Thus, as long as you get the velocity of the cannonball to be as fast or faster than the value of v above, assuming the effects of air resistance is negligible, then you will get an orbiting cannonball

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