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The distance between a planet and an object affects the gravitational force between them. That means the size of a planet affects the value of the "surface gravity" for that planet. The greater thedistance from the surface to the center of the planet, the smaller the gravity at the surface (for the same planet mass).

An example is the fact that Mars and Mercury have almost exactly the same

surface gravity. Mars has more mass than Mercury, but this is balancedby the fact that Mercury hasthe smaller radius.

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