Why is gravity on earth not the same in space?
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✓ Everything in the Universe exerts a force on everything else. This force is called gravity, or gravitation.
✓ The strength of force... between any two particular objects depends on these two things:
THEIR INDIVIDUAL MASSES
and the DISTANCE BETWEEN THEM.
✓ The greater an object's mass, the greater will be its pull, on other objects, so the Earth exerts a higher pull on a person than that person does on the Earth.
✓ The farther two objects are apart, the less the effect of the force of gravity between them.
Lets say... there is an astronaut, floating free 30 meters away from the ISS - International Space Station. The astronaut would feel one-ninth of its gravitational pull as an astronaut who is only 10 meters away.
✓ Astronauts in space experience 'weightlessness' when they are far enough away from the Earth, for its gravitational pull to be balanced by that of the Universe.
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mudit11 here to help
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✓ Everything in the Universe exerts a force on everything else. This force is called gravity, or gravitation.
✓ The strength of force... between any two particular objects depends on these two things:
THEIR INDIVIDUAL MASSES
and the DISTANCE BETWEEN THEM.
✓ The greater an object's mass, the greater will be its pull, on other objects, so the Earth exerts a higher pull on a person than that person does on the Earth.
✓ The farther two objects are apart, the less the effect of the force of gravity between them.
Lets say... there is an astronaut, floating free 30 meters away from the ISS - International Space Station. The astronaut would feel one-ninth of its gravitational pull as an astronaut who is only 10 meters away.
✓ Astronauts in space experience 'weightlessness' when they are far enough away from the Earth, for its gravitational pull to be balanced by that of the Universe.
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gravity is not so obvious in space is because objects tend to orbit planets instead of hitting them. Orbiting just means that an object falls towards a planet due to gravity and continually misses
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