[LibWhacker]

If you mean would you weigh 4.5 times as much as on Earth, not necessarily. Gravitational force on a planet's surface is proportional to the product of the masses (yours and the planet's) and inversely proportional to the square of the radius: G ~ Mm/r².

As the radius goes to zero, your weight goes to infinity. As it increases without limit, your weight goes to zero.

So although this planet is 4.5 times the mass of the Earth, if it's radius is large, we could actually be pretty comfortable on the surface. I suspect this is the case because another article I read said the planet is poor in heavy metals (it's not a compact iron ball).

[GeronL]

Oh, Okay. I get it.

I did hear that if a planet were solid gold, it could be half the size of Earth to get 1g

heh

[jpsb]

"the planet is poor in heavy metals

There goes the magnetic field, I hate it when that happens. But maybe a Red Dwarf does not produce the same solar radiation as our Sun, hmmmm, there might still be hope that this planet has hot babes! We need to check it out immediately. The heck with a moon base, let's build a base on this planet.