wedrifid comments on Compartmentalization as a passive phenomenon - Less Wrong
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I read the question as asking about THE Moon, not "a moon". The question as written has no certain answer. If a moon is rotating fast enough, a pen held a few feet above its surface will be at orbital velocity. Above this level it will float away. The astronaut might also float away, unless he were wearing heavy boots.
Well, even more technically, 'may be at orbital velocity, depending on where on the moon the astronaut is standing'.
Pesky mountains.
That and varying latitude.