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Would a moon much smaller than our moon exert a gravitational pull on objects, too? How about something
the size of a mountain? Or a building? A car? An apple? Describe the effect that mass has on the gravitational
pull of an object.

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The Moon's surface gravity is about 1/6th as powerful or about 1.6 meters per second. The Moon's surface gravity is weaker because it is far less massive than Earth.

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Answer:

The gravitational force exerted is same the only difference arises because of the masses of earth and moon since the mass of earth is quite large as compared to Moon so effect on Earth is quite insignificant as compared to effect on moon.

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