Recent content by CaptKronos

Hmmm...that might just work. Another physics question that might work itself into the story: If you have two equal masses separated and connected by a thousand feet truss, orbiting perpendicular to its orbital path at the CG, would not the masses, orbiting on different paths apply a torque...

NoTime, I think you're right on all issues. A north-to-south ballistic arc would make the burn into orbit (for later rescue) far more practiable than trying to lasso a spinning hunk of basalt. And if I shorten the arc my heroes wouldn't have enough time to even attempt it. Bottom line...

It would be a difficult trick to time the release properly on a plummeting, spinning chunk of rock, but my heroes have no alternative but to try and hope for the best. I don't have the math ability to calculate the ratios of rock mass, flyer mass, rotational velocity at the CG radius, to...

The rover, like the rock, is following a ballistic arc, so both will fall back to the lunar surface unaided. I'm wondering if it is possible for my heroes to approach the spinning chuck of ejecta, "land" near the center of rotation, then, using a piton and cable, winch back along the major...

Thanks for the response. I didn't make the back story clear. I have a "snowball" type comet strike the lunar surface close to the rover. The kinetic energy of impact flashes the volatiles (mostly water ice) into vapor. It is this expanding gas that launches the rover into its suborbital...

I hope this is an appropriate forum for this question. I'm writing a science fiction story set on the moon. In the story, my heroes, inside a rover type vehicle are blasted into a ballistic arc by a comet impact. The rover has limited "jump" rockets but they and the fuel supply are...