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You Aren't Heavy, You're Just On The Wrong Planet

Your weight is not a fixed biological fact. Here is how much a 100 kg person would weigh across every planet in our solar system, ranked from bone-crushing gravity to cosmic featherweights.

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  1. What Would You Weigh On Every Planet? Ranked
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Step onto a bathroom scale on Earth and the number feels like an unchangeable truth. Yet that figure is only a local measurement created by our planet's mass and diameter. Travel across the solar system and your weight transforms dramatically on every world you visit.

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©Unsplash / Towfiqu barbhuiya & NASA / JPL

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