upon gravitational acceleration, things on the Moon will weigh only 16.6% (= 1/6) of what they weigh on the Earth. The gravitational field of the Moon has...

of universal gravitation states that every particle attracts every other particle in the universe with a force that is proportional to the product of...

physics, gravitational acceleration is the acceleration of an object in free fall within a vacuum (and thus without experiencing drag). This is the steady...

The gravity of Earth, denoted by g, is the net acceleration that is imparted to objects due to the combined effect of gravitation (from mass distribution...

guide the growth of plants through the process of gravitropism and influencing the circulation of fluids in multicellular organisms. The gravitational attraction...

result of their limiting the "herd" of the ring particles as a shepherd. Due to their gravitational influence, shepherd moons deflect ring particles from...

The gravitational constant is an empirical physical constant involved in the calculation of gravitational effects in Sir Isaac Newton's law of universal...

system of tiny moons orbiting Earth.: 146  He had begun his search for secondary moons based on the hypothesis that something was gravitationally affecting...

Rükl, Atlas of the Moon, 2004. The Moon Moon – Oceanus Procellarum ("Ocean of Storms") Solar System portal Gravitation of the Moon Google Moon Grazing lunar...

small-mass objects under the gravitational influence of two massive orbiting bodies. Mathematically, this involves the solution of the restricted three-body...

velocity which must be shed from the target moon's gravitational attraction for a soft landing to occur. For Earth's Moon, the escape velocity is 2.38 kilometres...

the same side of the Moon to always face Earth. The Moon's gravitational pull—and, to a lesser extent, the Sun's—are the main drivers of Earth's tides....

The tidal force or tide-generating force is a gravitational effect that stretches a body along the line towards and away from the center of mass of another...

his characters go to the Moon via a totally fictional creation of an anti-gravitational material rather than the actual use of technology. 1901 in science...

(perturbations) due to the gravitational attraction of the Sun and planets, the study of which (lunar theory) has a long history. The orbit of the Moon is a nearly...

masses of the Moon and Earth, the effect being called gravitational time dilation. The technology used for the timekeeping devices deployed to the Moon have...

one of seven gravitationally rounded moons of Saturn and the second-most distant among them. Frequently described as a planet-like moon, Titan is 50%...

is the smallest of the four Galilean moons orbiting Jupiter, and the sixth-closest to the planet of all the 95 known moons of Jupiter. It is also the sixth-largest...

have intersected the orbits of irregular moons and disrupted those of smaller regular moons, dispersing them through gravitational interactions. Triton's...

the gravitational loading of another astronomical body or bodies (especially the Moon and Sun). The Yolngu people of northeastern Arnhem Land in the Northern...

are the rise and fall of sea levels caused by the combined effects of the gravitational forces exerted by the Moon (and to a much lesser extent, the Sun)...

Missions to the Moon have been numerous and include some of the earliest space missions, conducting exploration of the Moon since 1959. The first partially...

phase or Moon phase is the apparent shape of the Moon's directly sunlit portion as viewed from the Earth (because the Moon is tidally locked with the Earth...

instead gravitationally captured by it. The next-largest satellite in the Solar System suspected to be captured, Saturn's moon Phoebe, has only 0.03% of Triton's...

physics, a gravitational field or gravitational acceleration field is a vector field used to explain the influences that a body extends into the space around...

or moons. At least 19 of them are large enough to be gravitationally rounded; of these, all are covered by a crust of ice except for Earth's Moon and...

fast. The problem could have been mascons—concen­tra­tions of high mass in a region or regions of the Moon's crust that contains a gravitational anomaly...

(lit. "Gathering Tale: Gravitation of the Moon"), which required that the player has completed the supplemental "Kain's Tale". The game's finale was released...

descriptions of redirect targets Tug of war (astronomy) – Ratio of gravitational forces on a satellite from the Sun and host planet The Moon, Earth's natural...

The gravitational field near the Moon is weaker because the Moon has less active gravitational mass. Passive gravitational mass is a measure of the strength...