To: jetson
Does anything really have weight in space? You're right. ESA got it right; Fox screwed it up. Never let a reporter talk about science.
The WEIGHT of something depends on how close it is to something ELSE (like a planet or star). The MASS of something is a measure of how much material is in it, and doesn't change because of location.
31 posted on
03/09/2019 12:14:15 PM PST by
Izzy Dunne
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To: Izzy Dunne
Weight is like force:
F=ma - W=ma, where a is the acceleration due to gravity.
40 posted on
03/09/2019 4:12:57 PM PST by
ETL
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To: Izzy Dunne
The WEIGHT of something depends on how close it is to something ELSE (like a planet or star). The MASS of something is a measure of how much material is in it, and doesn't change because of location. If I recall correctly though, mass will increase with speed. Relatively anyways.
47 posted on
03/11/2019 9:41:37 AM PDT by
zeugma
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