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A 200-Kg Spacecraft Is Launched to the Moon

Question 34

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A 200-kg spacecraft is launched to the Moon. While in orbit around the Moon, its mass is ____.

A) zero
B) 200 kg
C) about 1/6^th its mass at Earth
D) The answer depends on how close to the Moon the ship is orbiting

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