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How can the mass of a planet be used to aid probes in space such as voyager?
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Well, Voyager is now well beyond much useful gravitational influence of any of the solar system's planets. What we have learned is that planetary gravity wells can be used to provide a boost to passing spacecraft. Since Voyager most spacecraft to the outer planets spend some time in the inner system first, performing slingshots from one planet to the next to increase velocity.
Each of these maneuvers robs a wee bit of the planet's angular momentum.
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No, the mass of a planet does not equal the size of that particular planet.
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mass
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What is a mass of rock moving through space called?
Planet Asteroid Meteoroid
Why do the atmospheres around planets not escape to space?
Because the mass of the planet holds it down.
What would your planet be like without sun?
it would be a piece of mass....roaming in the space(universe)
Would your mass change if you traveled from planet to planet?
No your mass would not change at all if you traveled from planet to planet. Mass is the amount of space an object takes up. Since different planets have different levels of gravity pushing down on you then your weight would change but unless for any reason you lost/gained weight or grown any taller/shorter your mass would not change traveling planet to planet.
Why your weigt increases on other planet?
Your mass stays the same but your weight is different because it is the force that the planet's mass attracts your mass with. So if you are on a small planet your weight is less. A body with 100 pounds mass has a weight of 100 pounds on the Earth but only 17 pounds on the Moon, and zero pounds in space.
