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As an object gets farther from the center of the earth, the objects mass
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As an object gets farther from the center of the earth, the objects mass

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*the mass of the object is not affected, it stays the same.

the weight of the object is what gets affected, it reduces due to the fact that the gravitational pull is decreasing.
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