Garfield (weighing 24 lbs) took a flight to the moon on the space shuttle. as usual, he stuffed himself with lasagna during the entire flight and napped when he wasn't eating. much to his delight when he got to the moon he found he weighed only 6 lbs. he immediately proclaimed a quick weight loss diet. explain the fallacy in his reasoning. assume gravity on the moon to be about one-sixth that of earth.

is it due to the gravitational pull from the moon?

Imagine that a new planet is discovered with two moons of equal mass: moon a and moon b. the mass of the new planet is greater than the combined mass of its moons. moon a is farther away from the new planet than moon b. what is the planet's gravitational pull on moon a compared to the planet's gravitational pull on moon b? the planet's gravity repels moon a with a greater force than it repels moon b, which is why moon a is farther away. the gravitational pull on moon b is greater than on moon a because moon b is closer to the new planet than moon a. the gravitational pull on moon b is greater than on moon a because moon b is farther away from the new planet than moon a. the gravitational pull on moon a is the same as the gravitational pull on moon b because distance does not affect the planet's gravity.