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Assuming that the mass of asteroid decreases to its half due to its collision with another asteroid so what happens to the gravitational field intensity?​

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Where G is the gravitational constant, is the mass of first object and is the mass of second object and is the distance between both the objects. When is halved, which means , then force of gravitation becomes . So, gravitational force becomes four times.
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