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What is the gravitational attraction of the planets from least to greatest?
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∙ 8y ago
From least to greatest- Mercury, Mars, Uranus, Venus, Earth, Saturn, Neptune, Jupiter
IMPORTANT NOTE: Mercury and Mars have the same gravitational pull.
By attraction at the planetary "surface" the order is:
Mars and Mercury (almost the same, a bit less on Mars)
Uranus*
Venus
(Earth)
Saturn*
Neptune*
Jupiter*
* Calculated at the 1 bar (Earth sea level pressure) location within their atmospheres - they have no actual surfaces to stand on, so anything placed there would be pulled down deeper unless it was less dense than that. As you go farther out from a planet's surface, the gravitational attraction decreases.
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∙ 8y ago
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∙ 12y ago- Jupiter [6]
- Saturn [7]
- Uranus [8]
- Neptune [9]
- Earth [3]
- Venus [2]
- Mars [4]
- Mercury [1]
- Eris [17]
- Pluto [11]
- Makemake [15]
- Sedna [18]
- Haumea [13]
- Charon [12]
- "Snow White" (2007 OR10) [16]
- Ceres [5]
- Quaoar [14]
- Orcus [10]
*Note that Vesta and Pallas are protoplanets, that would be ranked 19 and 20, [5.3] and [5.7] (they orbit within the Asteroid Belt, between Ceres and Jupiter).
**Several of the moons in our system are larger than some of the planets. Ganymede, the largest moon, is larger than every dwarf planet, as well as Mercury.
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∙ 10y agoUranus < Saturn < Neptune < Jupiter
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Venus is similar to Earth
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