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the weight of an object on a planet depends not only on its mass, but also on its distance from the planet's center. this table lists weight of 80 kg on each planet in the solar system.Uranus has more than 14 times as much mass as earth, yet the gravitational force is less.explain how this could be.

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uranus is much much larger than Earth, so the distance from the planet's center is much much greater
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