Course Contents > Homework #4 > Weight on high Tower Timer Notes Evaluate Feedback Print Imagine that it is possible to take a 1 kg mass and raise it straight up off the Earth's equator on a huge tower that stretches beyond the Earth's atmosphere into space. If the top of the tower is 160.0 km directly above a point on the Earth's equator, what would the mass weight at the top of the tower? For comparison, on the surface of the Earth, the mass weighs 9.86 Newtons. DATA: Equatorial radius of the Earth 6.3786 meters; mass of the Earth 5.98E24 kg; Gravitational Constant 6.673E-11 Nm^2/kg^2 Submit Answer Tries 0/30 Post Discussion Send Feedback