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SirNanigans t1_ixx39jr wrote

There's lots of interesting details about planetary mass and radius that others have mentioned but I have to wonder... if the question is simply "how strong is the gravity of this planet" then shouldn't that be measurable by simply examining a single orbiting body's velocity and distance, or just dropping something in vacuum and observing the acceleration, or even just taking your kitchen scale to the planet and putting a calibration weight on it?

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