An astronaut lands on a previously unknown planet of radius 2350. km and she measures the acceleration of gravity to be 3.20 m/s2

(a) What is the mass of this new planet?
(b) What does the astronaut weigh on this new planet if she weighs 384. N on Earth?


(a) 0.26 × 1024 kg
(b) 125. Newtons

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