What is your terminal velocity on the moon?

Answer 1

'Terminal velocity' is completely a phenomenon of falling through air or water.

Since there's none of either on the moon, there's no terminal velocity there.

If you can start high enough, you can reach as high a velocity as you want to

before you hit the surface with a silent 'splut'.

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The same contributor confessed:

Well, no, I guess that's not completely true. There's the concept of 'escape velocity'.

On the moon, that's 2.38 kilometers per second ... the velocity required at launch

from the moon to escape its gravity and not fall back.

The way these things work, that's also how fast you'd be going when you hit

the surface if you were dropped from infinity and fell all the way to the moon.

So your velocity when you hit the surface is: Whatever velocity you were thrown

down with, plus some gain due to the acceleration of gravity on the way down ...

which is a maximum of 2.38 more kilometers per second if you were thrown at

the moon from infinitely far away.