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Gravity works on Earth by pulling all the things to the center of the Earth. For example if you throw a stone in the air it will not fall into the orbit but it would come back to you focusing on you as the center of gravity. On the moon gravity is one sixth of what it is on Earth so, if you walk, jump or throw a stone in the air it would be hard for it to land down and come back to same place as from where it was launched. same with your weight....
weight on Earth: 60
Then weight on moon: 10 (1/6 of 60 or weight on Earth)
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Is an astronaut lighter on the moon?
Anyone on the moon has the same mass as he has anywhere else, but because the moon's gravity is only a small fraction of what earth gravity is, he will weigh less, and will feel like he is lighter. Remember that mass is "fixed" for a person or object, but "weight" can vary depending on the gravity in which the mass is placed. Your mass on earth and on the moon are the same. Your weight on the moon will be only a bit more than .16 times what it is on earth. A "rough" figure is that you weigh about 1/7th as much on the moon as on earth.
How did the astronaut keep from floating away on the moon?
There isn't much gravity in empty space, but there is a great deal of gravity near planets, stars, moons and other celestial bodies. The moon has gravity because it has mass. Everything with mass has gravity (including you, albeit a VERY small amount). That's how the astronauts stayed on the moon, and the reason why their movements were slow because the moon has about 1/6 the amount of gravity as Earth.
What happens when you walk to the bottom of the moon?
Not much. If you walk to the bottom of the earth, not much happens there, either. Gravity is slightly higher at the poles, but it is unnoticeable.
How does Astronomy affect the ocean?
The very quick and dirty answer: Our moon plays a major role in the tides of the earth's oceans because the earth and moon are attracted to each other gravitationally.A little more detail: The earth-moon system has a center of gravity, called the Barycenter. This is a point located within the body of the earth, and which moves in such a way that it is always in line with the earth's center and the moon's center. The moon's gravity pulls on the oceans that are right below the moon, and the moon's gravity is a little weaker on the other side of the earth. At the same time, the earth is orbiting the Barycenter (this would be observed as a wobble in earth's orbit if observed from far enough away), causing a bit of a 'push back' on the oceans on the other side.A:It's not the moon's gravity alone, but the interaction of the earth and moon. One influence is the fact that the earth-moon system orbits around the common center of gravity of earth-moon. This point is called the barycenter, and it is within the body of the earth since earth's mass is considerably larger than the moon's mass. As the earth wobbles around the barycenter, it tends to push the water out from behind the barycenter. At the same time, the gravitational attraction of the moon is stronger on the water that is moon-side than it is on the water on the opposite side of earth. So there is a high tide bulge on two opposite sides of the earth at once, and of course then there are two low tide areas at roughly 90 degree angles to the high tides. A:Tidal forces are caused by the differential pull of gravity on a planetary body or moon. Consider the Earth-moon system. The Earth and moon are orbiting around their common center of mass, which is a point that lies somewhere inside the Earth since the Earth is so much more massive than the moon. So since we are in orbit around this center of gravity, we don't feel the moon's gravitational force, much like how astronauts in orbit don't feel the gravitational force of the Earth, even though it is pulling on them all the same.However, because the Earth is a large body, the pull of the moon is stronger on the side of the earth facing the moon and weaker on the opposing side. The pull of the moon at the center of the Earth falls in the middle. The effect of this differential pull is that the water on the near side wants to pull away from the Earth, and the Earth wants to pull away from the water on the far side. This net effect is a force that tends to stretch the earth and oceans, creates two tidal bulges, hence two high tides per day and two tides per day. The water of course is much more deformable than the Earth itself, so it is the oceans we see forming the tidal bulges. Low tide occurs at the location on the earth at right angles to the Earth - moon line, and high tide occurs along the Earth-moon line.For more information on this, please see the links below:A:But it's not just the force of gravity (the sun's force is much greater than the moon's) but the DIFFERENCE between the force of gravity on the nearer side of the Earth as compared to the farther side. As the moon passes over the Earth, since it has its own gravitational pull, it slightly lessens the force of the gravity on the Earth. The lessened gravity when the moon is over the oceans causes the ocean's surface to rise, so the tide goes in.A:The gravity of the moon pulls on the oceans of the Earth, to help create the tides.
What is the speed of fall on Earth vs on Moon?
The question is somewhat ambiguous. It could be asking either one of two different questions.Here are the answers to both:1). The moon does not fall to earth because it has tangential velocity which, when combined with the force of gravity toward the center of the earth, results in a stable Keplerian elliptical orbit.2). Apples do not fall to the moon because of the following facts:a). The apple's distance from the moon's center is roughly 60 times the apple's distance from the earth's center.b). The earth's mass is roughly 82 times the moon's mass.c). The result is that the gravitational force attracting the apple to the earth is roughly 295,000 times the force attracting it toward the moon.The same situation holds true for all objects on the earth. A car, attracted to the earthwith a force (weight) of 2000 pounds (1 ton), is also attracted to the moon by a forceof about 1/10th of an ounce. When it falls, it falls in the direction of the greater force.
How much more is gravity on the moon than the earth?
The moon has gravity but the earth has more because living people live in the planet.
Why is it that the earth is not affected by the Moon's gravity?
Earth is affected by the moon's gravity. The moon's gravity exerts just as much force on Earth as Earth's gravity does on the moon, but since Earth is far more massive, it undergoes far less acceleration.
Why is gravity on earth and not the moon?
There is gravity on the moon. The moon's gravity is much weaker than Earth's because the moon has less mass.
How much more is gravity on earth than on the moon?
About 6 times more.
Why accelaration due to gravity on moon is less than accelaration due to gravity on earth?
Because the earth is much more heavier than the moon.
Why do you weigh more than on the moon?
The gravity that pulls us to the earth is much weaker on the moon.
Where is there no gravity other than the moon?
There is gravity on the moon but not as much as on Earth. This is because the amount of gravity depends on the mass of the object creating the gravity and the moon is much smaller and has much lower mass than the Earth. If you are far enough away from the Earth (and moon) their will be a point where there is no noticeable gravity.
How much time less then gravity of the moon as compare to the earth?
moon's gravity is (1/6)th of the earth's gravity
How much less is the Moon's gravity than that of the earth's?
Since the Moon's gravity is 1/6 that of Earth, the Moon's gravity is 5/6 less than that of Earth.
Why does the moon have no gravate?
The Moon does have gravity, but it is much weaker than the gravity on Earth.
Does the moon give gravity to the earth?
No. Earth's gravity is due to Earth's own mass. The moon has its own gravity due to its mass, but that gravity is much weaker than Earth's.
What is the gravity on the moon compared to earth's gravity?
An object on the moon's surface weighs 0.165 as much as it does on the Earth's surface.
