Essential Cosmic Perspective
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Chapter 4, Problem 32EAP
If Earth were twice as far from the Sun, the force of gravity attracting Earth to the Sun would be (a) twice as strong. (b) half as strong. (C) one-quarter as strong.
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Essential Cosmic Perspective
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