Timeline for Pluto's gravitational pull on a person on the Earth's surface?
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| Aug 28, 2014 at 12:57 | comment | added | Taemyr | Answer added, feel free to review since I could have made a mistake. | |
| Aug 28, 2014 at 10:22 | comment | added | Emilio Pisanty | @Taemyr That's a great point. You should add it as an answer. | |
| Aug 28, 2014 at 9:56 | comment | added | Taemyr | However our frame of reference is the surface of the Earth. So you need to look at the difference between pluto's pulll on the person and it's pull on Earth. | |
| Sep 18, 2012 at 14:30 | comment | added | Alan Rominger | @dmckee $G (70 kg) / (3 m)^2 = 5 \times 10^{-11} m s^{-2}$, so the attraction is five thousand times greater. | |
| Apr 24, 2012 at 21:41 | vote | accept | Zack Zatkin-Gold | ||
| Apr 24, 2012 at 21:40 | vote | accept | Zack Zatkin-Gold | ||
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| Apr 24, 2012 at 1:28 | comment | added | Emilio Pisanty | ah! but the attraction between me and Pluto is symmetric, whereas... | |
| Apr 24, 2012 at 1:25 | comment | added | dmckee --- ex-moderator kitten | Next step: compare this to the gravitational attraction between you and that cute member of the apposite sex on the other side of the classroom... | |
| Apr 24, 2012 at 1:22 | history | answered | Emilio Pisanty | CC BY-SA 3.0 |