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What will change if a rock is brought from the surface of the Moon to Earth... its mass or its weight or both

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Solution:

weight will change.
because weight is acceleration due to gravity by which earth or planet pulls it towards itself and we know
acceleration due to gravity on moon is 1/6th of that on earth.

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