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By their very definition, mass and weight cannot be the same. If you were to go to a planetoid whose radius was the same as the earth's radius but the mass was approx a tenth of the earth's mass, then the mass and weight of an object on its surface would have the same numeric value. However, because they are measures of different things, the fact that they have the same numeric value does not mean that they are the same: 5 seconds and 5 kilograms have the same numeric value but nobody (in their right mind) would argue that 5 seconds = 5 kilograms.

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