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What does weighing less on the moon mean for astronauts on the moon?

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Isaac Newton discovered that as an object's mass increases, the gravitational attraction of that object increases. Thus, the gravitational attraction on the Moon is much less than it is here on Earth, and a person weighs less on the Moon.

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