NEED TO LOSE WEIGHT FAST? GO TO THE MOON
Sixth grade has learned why you weigh less on the Moon – and why you weigh more on Jupiter: gravity. It’s not your body that changes (that’s your mass); it’s the strength of what’s keeping you on the surface. In fact, if you climbed a mountain, you would weigh less even on Earth, because the top of the mountain is farther away from the center of the planet’s gravity.
Did you know that if you drop a feather and a hammer at the same time on the Moon, they will hit the surface at the same time? Sixth grade knows! They learned that since there is no air there, there’s nothing to make the feather float. That experiment couldn’t be performed effectively on Earth until anti-gravity chambers were invented, but Galileo Galilei, an Italian scientist from the 16th Century, did some of the initial tests to theorize that all objects fall in the same rate in a vacuum.
Miss Kleinschuster
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