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What information is needed to calculate the gravitational force of an object?(1 point)
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the distance between the two objects
the distance between the two objects

the mass of the two objects
the mass of the two objects

the mass of the object and the planet’s gravitational acceleration
the mass of the object and the planet’s gravitational acceleration

the mass of the object subtracted from the distance between the object and the planet’s core

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
You need the masses of the two objects and the distance between them.

(Using Newton’s law: F = G·m1·m2 / r². If you only want the object’s weight at a planet’s surface, you can instead use F = m·g.)