Mass of: radius of:
Earth 5.98 x 1024 kg Earth 6.38 x 106
m
Jupiter 1.91 x 1027 kg Jupiter 7.14 x 107
m
Mars 6.43 x 1023 kg Mars 3.40 x 106
m
Mercury 3.32 x 1023 kg Mercury 2.44 x 106
m
Moon 7.36 x 1022 kg Neptune 2.43 x 107
m
Neptune 1.03 x 1026 kg sun 7.00 x 108
m
Saturn 5.68 x 1026 kg Uranus 2.61 x 107
m
Sun 1.99 x 1030 kg Venus 6.05 x 106
m

Uranus 8.74 x 1025 kg
Venus 4.89 x 1024 kg

distance from Earth to the sun 1.50 x 1011 m distance from Saturn to the sun 1.43 x 1012 m
distance from Earth to the moon 3.84 x 108
m

1 pound = 4.545 newtons 1 meter = 3.28 feet 1 mile = 1609 meters
1) How much would a 70.0-kg person weigh on Mercury?

2) How much would your 20.0-kg dog weigh on Neptune?

3) If Pete (mass = 90.0 kg) weighs himself and finds that he weighs 30.0 pounds, how far away from the surface
of the earth is he?

4) Captain Kirk (80.0 kg) beams down to a planet that is the same size as Uranus and finds that he weighs
1250 N. What is the mass of that planet?

5) Which is greater, the force exerted by Saturn on the sun, or the force exerted by the earth on the Sun? How
much greater?

6) A distance of 2.00 mm separates two objects of equal mass. If the gravitational force between them is
0.0104 N, find the mass of each object.

7) Calculate the gravitational field strength (g) on the surface of Jupiter.

8) If the gravitational field strength at the top of Mount Everest is 9.772 N/kg, approximately how tall (in feet) is
the mountain?

9) If you dropped a ball while standing on the surface of Mars, at what rate would it accelerate toward the
ground?

10) A space probe lands on the surface of a spherical asteroid 250 miles in diameter and measures the strength of
its gravitational field at that point to be 4.95 x 10-11 N/kg. What is the mass of the asteroid?