Timeline for Difference in gravity on both sides of the moon
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| Dec 25, 2019 at 14:42 | vote | accept | sirzento | ||
| Dec 19, 2019 at 23:55 | comment | added | David Hammen | I suspect this question is motivated by the rather widely held concept that the Earth should make someone lighter as weighed by a scale at the point on the Moon closest to the Earth but heavier at the point on the Moon furthest from the Earth. This is incorrect. The Earth makes someone lighter at both points, and by almost the same amount. There are places where the Earth does someone on the Moon slightly heavier than nominal; these places are the set of points where the Earth is on the horizon. | |
| Dec 14, 2019 at 0:01 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackAstronomy/status/1205638799197396993 | ||
| Dec 13, 2019 at 23:18 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Dec 13, 2019 at 22:36 | answer | added | Mark Olson | timeline score: 2 | |
| Dec 13, 2019 at 16:39 | answer | added | David Hammen | timeline score: 10 | |
| Dec 13, 2019 at 15:24 | answer | added | Nuclear Hoagie | timeline score: 3 | |
| Dec 13, 2019 at 15:11 | history | asked | sirzento | CC BY-SA 4.0 |