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| Because the Moon has significantly less mass than Earth, the weight of an object on the Moon’s surface is only one-sixth the object’s weight on Earth’s surface. This graph shows how much an object that weighs w on Earth would weigh at different points between the Earth and Moon. Since the Earth and Moon pull in opposite directions, there is a point, about 346,000 km (215,000 mi) from Earth, where the opposite gravitational forces would cancel, and the object's weight would be zero. | ||||||
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