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Your mass is the amount of stuff that makes up our body. It can only change if you either remove something from your body or add something to it. Your weight is the amount of force you experience from gravity. It depends on both your mass and the strength of the gravity. Since the strength of gravity varies between the planets, so will your weight.

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Q: Why can your weight change if you go to another planet but your mass will not change?
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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.


How do you change weight to mass?

You don't "change" it. Mass is mass, and weight is weight.Mass HAS weight. How much weight it has depends on the gravity field it happens to be in.On the surface of the earth, 1 kilogram of mass weighs about 9.8 newtons (2.2 pounds). On the moon oron another planet, the same kilogram can weigh more, less, or the same. In an orbiting satellite, or in aspacecraft on its way to the moon or another planet, the same kilogram weighs zero, and it floats around.


What is your Mass on each planet?

Your mass does not change no matter which planet you're on. That is because mass is a measure for how much material there is. However, your weight will change because it is the measure of how much you're being pulled down by a planet.


Go to another planet will your mass change?

Your mass will not change (unless you go on a diet). On different planets your weightwill change because you will be pulled down with a different force.


Does your weight change when you go to another planet?

Yes, because on different planets you are being pulled down by a different mass. this help me so much

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What happens to the mass and weight of an object if it is transported to another planet?

Mass . . . No change. Weight . . . Changes & depends on the gravity on the other planet compared to the gravity on Earth.


Does the mass change from place to another?

mass of a body doesn't change but your weight (as defined by the pull of gravity) will change if you go to space or to another planet with different gravitational pull than ours


Will your mass change from planet to planet?

No. Your mass will stay the same. Your weight, however, will change in direct proportion to each planet's gravity.


What is an example of when weight would change and mass stays the same?

When you travel from the planet Earth to another place, such as the International Space Station or the moon, your mass would remain the same but your weight would change.


What happens to your mass as you move from planet to planet?

Your mass does not change. Your weight, however, changes in proportion to the gravity of each planet.


How would your weight change on the surface of an earth sized planet whose mass was greater the earths Why.?

Your weight is directly proportional to the mass and gravity of the planet, if the planet has a greater gravity and mass, you will weigh more.


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.


How would your weight change on the surface of an earth sized planet whose mass was greater than earth why?

Your weight is directly proportional to the mass and gravity of the planet, if the planet has a greater gravity and mass, you will weigh more.


How do you change weight to mass?

You don't "change" it. Mass is mass, and weight is weight.Mass HAS weight. How much weight it has depends on the gravity field it happens to be in.On the surface of the earth, 1 kilogram of mass weighs about 9.8 newtons (2.2 pounds). On the moon oron another planet, the same kilogram can weigh more, less, or the same. In an orbiting satellite, or in aspacecraft on its way to the moon or another planet, the same kilogram weighs zero, and it floats around.


Would mass change if we were on another planet?

No, mass is the same for an object wherever it goes. What changes is its weight, which is the force of attraction acting on it through proximity to a massive object.


What is a measure that will not change if you go to space or another planet?

mass


How the weight and the mass will change if a planet has gravity half as strong as Earth?

Mass remains the same; weight will be one half that of the same mass on earth.