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Local Gravity on the Moon

Question by Guest | 2018-03-23 at 19:21

Everybody knows since the sixth grade that the mean local gravity (gravitational acceleration) on earth is 9.81 m/s² (at the equator it is slightly smaller, at the poles of the earth a bit larger).

But now I would like to calculate the weight of an object whose mass I know on the moon. Does anyone know the location factor that can be used for the moon?

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The local gravity respectively location factor on the surface of the moon is 1.62 m/s². This makes the same object about six times lighter on the Moon than on Earth.

Here you can also find the local gravitations of other planets.
2018-03-23 at 22:54

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