Answer to Question #289248 in Physics for mubashar

Question #289248

How fast would the moon need to travel in order to escape the gravitational

pull of Earth, if Earth has a mass of 5.98 X 1024 kg and the distance from

Earth to the moon is 3.84 x 108 m?

Expert's answer

The escape velocity for the Moon would be

"v=\\sqrt\\dfrac{2GM}{d_\\text{ME}}=1.44\\text{ km\/s}."

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