by Mawgan on February 9th, 2007

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What is the difference between mass and weight? Is it possible for an astronaut in the weightlessness of space to move an object of large mass?

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  • by T4 on February 9th, 2007

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    Mass is the quantity of matter in an object. Weight is the amount of gravitational force acting on an object. Hope the answer was helpful. ;-)

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    • Thankyou very much. This was very helpful with my physics revision :)

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      by emibrook on June 10th, 2010

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