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Weight and G: the Weight of Spaceman Speff at the Surface

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Weight and g: The weight of spaceman Speff at the surface of planet X, solely due to its gravitational pull, is 389 N. If he moves to a distance of 1.86 × 104 km above the planet's surface, his weight changes to 24.31 N. What is the mass of planet X, if Speff's mass is 75.0 kg? (G = 6.67 × 10-11 N ∙ m2/kg2)


A) 2.99 × 1024 kg
B) 2.99 × 1018 kg
C) 2.99 × 1017 kg
D) 1.59 × 1018 kg

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