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To: Steely Tom

I’d look at it a different way - the earth is about 24,000 miles in circumference, and rotates in 24 hours. So a point at the equator moves at about a thousand miles an hour.

A high velocity bullet will travel between about 2500 and 3200 feet per second, say roughly a mile in two seconds, or roughly a thousand yards in about a second.

1000 mph is 16 mpm or .28 mps, or approx. 1250 feet per second.

The flight of a high speed bullet to a target 1000 yards away is about a second.

In that second the target moves about 1250 feet.

Test: 1250 FPS x 60 sec x 60 min x 24hrs / 5250 feet per mile - about 20,571 miles, or within 20% of the assumed diameter of the earth.


49 posted on 11/29/2016 1:03:58 PM PST by Fido969
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To: Fido969

Yep, but the bullet “at rest” is also moving at the same rate as the earth.


60 posted on 11/29/2016 2:19:49 PM PST by GingisK
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