What is the G-force on the surface of the moon ?

What is the G-force on the surface of the moon ?


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Hii Mickey

Just to add to the former answer:   the value 1.62 is a mean value. 

The Moon's crust averages 68 km thick and varies from essentially 0 under Mare Crisium to 107 km north of the crater Korolev on the lunar far side. Below the crust is a mantle and probably a small core (roughly 340 km radius and 2% of the Moon's mass). Unlike the Earth, however, the Moon's interior is no longer active. Curiously, the Moon's center of mass is offset from its geometric center by about 2 km in the direction toward the Earth. Also, the crust is thinner on the near side. therefor the precise gravity is slightly different in various places.

 
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I think you meant "g" where you wrote "G".

the acceleration due to gravity, or "g", on the moon is 1.62 m/s^2.
the universal gravitational constant, or "G", is the same everywhere in the universe.

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I think it would be best to respond in a manner that is most easily understood by every layman:

The moon's gravity is one-sixth that of the Earth's; a man who weighs 180 lbf (pound-force) on Earth weighs only 30 lbf on the Moon. (The equivalent metric weight (or force) is the Newton, where 4.45 Newtons equal one pound-force.)

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