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Jupiter is more than 300 times as massive as Earth, so it might seem that a body on the su...

Jupiter is more than 300 times as massive as Earth, so it might seem that a body on the surface of Jupiter would weigh 300 times as much as it weighs on Earth. But it so happens that a body weighs scarcely three times as much on the surface of Jupiter as it weighs on the surface of Earth. Discuss why this is so. (Hint: Let the terms in the equation for gravitational force guide your thinking.)

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