Can you put a bullet into orbit?

Can you put a bullet into orbit?

Fires can’t burn in the oxygen-free vacuum of space, but guns can shoot. Modern ammunition contains its own oxidizer, a chemical that will trigger the explosion of gunpowder, and thus the firing of a bullet, wherever you are in the universe. No atmospheric oxygen required.

Is it possible to make a nuclear bullet?

You can’t have a nuclear bomb bullet per se that can be fired from a rifle, because there is a minimum mass called critical mass in order for the fission reaction to take place.

Could a bullet reach the moon?

An infinitely big gun could not shoot a bullet to the moon. An object needs to attain 11 km/s of velocity in order to escape the Earth’s gravity. Since the atmosphere would slow down the projectile, the muzzle velocity of such a bullet would need to be in the 15 km/s ballpark.

Would a bullet fired on the Moon orbit?

The Moon is smaller and has less of a gravitational pull, so something orbiting the Moon doesn’t need to be going at such a high velocity. A very powerful gun, like a military cannon, would be able to fire a shot all the way around the surface of the Moon.

Can a bullet circle the Earth?

The circumferemce of the earth is 24,901 miles. A 230 grain . 45acp bullet going 850 feet per second (~579.5 miles per hour) would take just under 43 hours, while a 55 grain 5.56×45 bullet going 3165fps (~2158mph) would take a little over 11 1/2 hours.

Can a bullet fall to Earth from space?

Answer Wiki. 7 Answers. No. A bullet is an inert lump of metal so it would need to leave the gun with all the kinetic energy it needed to coast into orbit. Space begins about 62 miles up and orbital velocity at that height is some 18,000 mph.

How do you accelerate a bullet in space?

Assuming perfectly circular motion of the bullet, and no air resistance, and ignoring gravitational effects of other planets / objects in space, and using simple Newtonian mechanics, we set the acceleration due to gravity equal to the centripetal acceleration required to move the bullet in a circle of the appropriate radius:

Is it possible to build a gun that can shoot through space?

Yes an no. You could theoretically build a gun that could fire a projectile that could still maintain orbital velocity after exiting the atmosphere, but without some kind of correction maneuver the perigee would still be around the same altitude as the gun deep inside the atmosphere.

How long would it take a bullet to hit you in the back?

Simply divide the total circular distance traveled by the bullet by the tangential velocity of the bullet (which we found previously). Thus, it would take around 6500 seconds to hit you in the back. Note that the first root contains only universal constants, and the second contains only the density of the primary.