Physics · Gravitation

Weightlessness is experienced by objects inside an artificial satellite. Even though the Moon is a natural satellite of the Earth, we do not experience weightlessness on it because:

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1The moon is at a very large distance from the earth
2The mass of the moon is large enough to exert its own significant gravitational acceleration✓
3Human mass changes significantly on the moon
4There is no gravitational force acting on the moon

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The mass of the moon is large enough to exert its own significant gravitational acceleration

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