You are on a deep space mission to search for Earth-like planets. Your crew locates a...

 

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You are on a deep space mission to search for Earth-like planets. Your crew locates a possible planet and with scanners find the radius to be 7.5 x 106 m. A team lands on the surface. There, they hang a 1.0 kg mass from a spring scale. It reads 8.5 N. a) Determine the mass of the planet using Newton's law of universal gravitation. b) Describe whether an astronaut standing on this new planet weighs more, less, or the same as on Earth. Show your work. You are on a deep space mission to search for Earth-like planets. Your crew locates a possible planet and with scanners find the radius to be 7.5 x 106 m. A team lands on the surface. There, they hang a 1.0 kg mass from a spring scale. It reads 8.5 N. a) Determine the mass of the planet using Newton's law of universal gravitation. b) Describe whether an astronaut standing on this new planet weighs more, less, or the same as on Earth. Show your work.