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a spacecraft is flying towards the moon using your knowledge of gravitational force explain the moon's gravitational pull on the spacecraft
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The gravitational force increseaes exponentially as you get closer to the moon. Since the denominator of the gravitational force formula is r^2, cutting the distance in half increases the force 4-fold.
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