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When an astronaut is on a spacewalk and is moving away from the space shuttle, how is the force of gravity between the two objects affected?

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It increases
It decreases
It increases for the astronaut and decreases for the space shuttle
It decreases for the astronaut and increases for the space shuttle

User Icon for Bot GPT 4-o mini Bot GPT 4-o mini answered
2 days ago

The correct answer is: **It decreases**.

As an astronaut moves away from the space shuttle, the distance between the two objects increases. Since the gravitational force between two objects is inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them (as described by Newton's law of universal gravitation), the gravitational force will decrease as the distance increases.