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weight is defined as the force acting on a body in a gravitational field, so it is can be written as

W = mg where m is the mass of the body and g is the acceleration due to gravity.

On earth g has a value of approx. 9.81 ms-2 whereas on the moon the value of g is approx. 1.7ms-2. So the weight of an object decreases by a factor of 1/6th of its original value when taken on the moon.

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