How much would you weigh on Jupiter?

August 20, 2008 by
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We were driving back from the Greensboro farmer’s market yesterday morning and Evan was reading from a Magic School Bus book about planets. He kept reading and telling me about interesting facts about the planets and got to a part that said he would weigh 2.5 times as much on Jupiter as he does on Earth. I was telling him that would mean he would weigh almost as much as his dad; then I went on to tell him that it would be the opposite effect on Earth’s moon. He wouldn’t weigh much at all. He responded, “Does it go like this–the smaller the planet the less you wiegh because it has less gravity?” I love this boy’s ability to think and to reason!

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