Consider a 2.4 kilogram feather (Big Bird) on the planet Mars. [Earth mass = 6.0 × 1024 kg = 9.3 × Mars mass; Earth radius = 6380. km = 1.89 × Mars radius]

(a) What does the feather weigh on Mars?
(b) What would the same feather weigh on Earth?


9.1 N on Mars
24. N on Earth

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