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Can more objects be juggled on the moon then on earth?

• Someone 8y ago
  I don’t think so. The moon’s smaller gravitational acceleration helps, but on earth, you can cheat by juggling objects that have a low terminal velocity and/or that are only just heavier than the air they displace (as long as they are small and light enough so that you can push them upwards reasonably fast, the fact that they won’t go high once you let them go doesn’t matter much)
• rtkwe 8y ago
  Yes, check the definitions of the author's theoretical max ball calculation on the first page gravitational acceleration determines the 'hang time' of a ball for a given value of hand acceleration. So holding everything else the same the same person with the same ability to throw 9 balls at g=-9.8m/s^2 would throw the balls higher on the moon giving them more room in their pattern for more balls.