What's the gravitational constant of the moon?

[NFS4]

Earth = 9.8
What's the value for the moon?

 

[Batti]

I believe the moon is 1/6th the gravity of earth...

 

[Muerto]

The moon's gravity is about 1/6th that of Earth's. So about 1.6.

 

[thereds]

You are correct.

 

[fdiskboy]

I think its Nef squared.

 

[NFS4]

Thanks

 

[UG]

Well, the Gravitational Constant for the inner solar system, at least, = 6.67390 x 10^-11 m^3/kg/s^2, with an uncertainty of 0.0014%.

As for the value of lunar gravitational acceleration...1.62 m/s^2 vs. Earth's 9.78 m/s^2

 

[beer]

UG -

Everytime someone posts a question related to math or science, you always respond with either these incredible links or in the case of a physics question sometime last week, a very detailed answer.

Might I ask, are you a professor or something? What kind of education do you have?

 

[NFS4]

Yeah, UG is da man

 

[piku]

And he is from West Palm Beach of all places! I thought they couldn't count?


hehe

 

[Handle]

As UG mentioned, the moon doesn't have a unique gravitational constant per se. "G" normally represents the gravitational constant, whereas "g" (what is seems you want to know) represents the acceleration of gravity (we use 9.81 m/s^2 [edit] for Earth [/edit] in class, but then again, people at the equator might have something to say about that).