<p>Because of the inverse square law for Newtonian gravity we have the acceleration due the gravity $g_b$ at the surface of the Earth due to a body of mass $m_b$ at a distance $d_b \gg r_e$ (where $r_e\approx 6371 \mbox{km}$ denotes the radius of the Earth, note all distances will need be in $\mbox{km}$ in what follows) is:
$$
g_b=g\times \frac{m_b}{m_e}\times \left(\frac{r_e}{d_b}\right)^2
$$
where $g$ is the usual accelleration due to gravity (from the Earth at the Earth's surface $\approx 10 \mbox{m/s}^2$, and $m_e\approx 6.0 \times 10^{24} \mbox{kg}$. We get the maximum acceleration due to a body when that body is at its closest to the Earth, which is what we do from now on (except for the Sun and Moon where the mean distance is used).</p>

<p>Now for the Moon $r_b\approx 0.384 \times 10^6 \mbox{km}$, and $m_b\approx 7.3 \times 10^{22} \mbox{kg}$, so the accelleration at the Earth's surface due to the Moon $g_b\approx 3.3 \times 10^{-5} \mbox{m/s}^2$</p>

<p>Then putting this relation and Solar-System data into a spread sheet we get:
<a href="https://i.sstatic.net/Nf3Bi.png"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/Nf3Bi.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>

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2016-01-04T19:56:41.960Z
Any ideas what those forces would feel like in layman's terms? How little force is 1.88E-7 ?
joseph.hainline
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2016-02-07T07:32:41.217Z
@joseph.hainline  in layman's terms, a g force of 1.88e-7 couldn't be felt.  Not close.  A 200 lbs man under that low a g force would several times lighter than a feather, you could lift a truck, in that g-force, with your pinky.  You might be able to lift a 747.   Now, heavy objects still have inertia, so you couldn't, for example, throw a truck like a baseball, but you could hold it up, against a gravity that low easily.   The astronauts in "weightless orbit" likely feel significantly more g-forces than that, and they float around like nothing.
userLTK
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2016-02-07T08:01:18.247Z
Small point to add to this, even those imperceptibly tiny g forces, the largest planetary one being Jupiter, 3.25E-7 *9.81 m/s^2, if you roughly calculate distance traveled using d = 1/2 a t^2, Jupiter does measurably move Earth every orbit, at least, the distance of a few earth diameters.   That's not much at all compared to 93 million miles, but it's still measurable.  That movement roughly, but not entirely, balances out every Jupiter orbit, 11 years and it's responsible for the orbital eccentricity variation which is one of the Milankovich cycles.
userLTK
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2015-12-30T23:58:43.950Z
Thanks for this. Looking at column D, does this infer that when Mars is closed (every two years?), the gravitational effect on Earth is twice that of the moon?
Dave
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2015-12-31T08:26:02.183Z
No, look at the exponents the Moon has a "g" of $\approx 6\times 10^{-3} \mbox{ m/s}^2 $ and Mars has a "g" of $\approx 7\times 10^{-9} \mbox{ m/s}^2 $, that is about six orders of magnitude lower.
Conrad Turner
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2015-12-31T12:34:09.610Z
You might want to add, that you actually can't "feel" the gravity of the sun, as earth is on a stable orbit around the sund the zentrifugal force ~= gravitational force (on the surface of the earth).
RononDex
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2015-12-31T22:07:04.417Z
That clears it up. Ty
Dave
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2021-04-22T07:53:57.397Z
really an useless answer for astroLOGISTs coming here to figure out how planets affect their lves...
jumpjack
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2015-12-30T17:03:48.047Z
2015-12-30T17:10:46.427Z
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Conrad Turner
<p>The force any planet produces on a 75kg person is given by formula:</p>
<p>F = G * M * m / r^2</p>
<p>Hence:</p>
<p><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/mnmIB.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/mnmIB.png" alt="table of values" /></a></p>
<pre><code>body    minimum distance (km)   Mass (kg)   Force (Newton)  % earth
Earth    6.341,00    6.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000,00    746,488018227  
Moon     384.000,00      73.000.000.000.000.000.000.000,00   0,002476552    0,000331760%
Sun  150.000.000,00      1.990.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000,00    0,442443333    0,059269985%
Venus    42.000.000,00   4.900.000.000.000.000.000.000.000,00    0,000013896    0,000001861%
Mars     78.000.000,00   640.000.000.000.000.000.000.000,00      0,000000526    0,000000070%
Juipter  629.000.000,00      1.900.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000,00    0,000024024    0,000003218%
Saturn   1.280.000.000,00    570.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000,00      0,000001740    0,000000233%
Uranus   2.730.000.000,00    87.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000,00   0,000000058    0,000000008%
Neptune  4.150.000.000,00    100.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000,00      0,000000029    0,000000004%
</code></pre>

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2021-04-22T16:28:44.903Z
Consider using scientific notation or a [Markdown table](/editing-help#tables).
Mike G
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2021-04-23T07:02:17.123Z
no, I intentionally did not use scientific notation because the answer is for people not acquainted to it and which is not able to figure out that 2E06 is NOT the double of 1E09 (see comments to the other answer, indeed).
jumpjack
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2021-04-22T07:59:46.473Z
2021-04-22T07:59:46.473Z
jumpjack
<p>How much gravitational force is felt on earth from the other planets in the solar system? The sun exerts the strongest g-force, holding us in it's orbit, followed by the moon which affects the tides on earth, but how much force do we feel from Jupiter, Saturn, Venus, etc?</p>

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2016-01-02T14:24:00.530Z
@MarcusQuinnRodriguezTenes Remember that all planets form a corotational system together with the sun, so the distances between two planets - or a planet and a point of observation on Earth - *is not constant*. Henceforth, the values you calculate with and get for the gravity change with time, **but** you can fairly easily create a program to compute the exact values at a given time, as the "exact" positions of the planets with respect to time can be found on various freely available databases :)
V-J
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2015-12-30T03:58:20.933Z
Well, one could use $GM/r^2$, where $GM$ is the [standard gravitational parameter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_gravitational_parameter) and $r$ is some typical distance. So the question is basically equivalent to asking for a typical distance between Earth and the body in question. For Earth-Sun or Earth-Moon, it's sensible to use the semi-major axis of the relevant orbit, but... how do you want to measure the rest? It's essentially easy to get a rough figure, but potentially hard if you want some spatial or temporal average, etc.
Stan Liou
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2015-12-30T05:00:33.223Z
I know I can calculate with the mass of the planet and the distance from it, i was just hoping these are well known figures i could find on the internet, without having to calculate all of them myself. It is a simple calculation though, I will if I have to, just trying to save myself some time. though i probably could have done it by now myself :)
Marcus Quinn Rodriguez Tenes
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2015-12-30T08:07:32.140Z
@MarcusQuinnRodriguezTenes : Please post your results if you decide to do the calculations yourself. I think I might be a little lazy... :p
Nico
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What is the gravitational force felt on Earth from the other planets in our solar system?
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# What is the gravitational force felt on Earth from the other planets in our solar system?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2015-12-30)

How much gravitational force is felt on earth from the other planets in the solar system? The sun exerts the strongest g-force, holding us in it's orbit, followed by the moon which affects the tides on earth, but how much force do we feel from Jupiter, Saturn, Venus, etc?

**Tags:** solar-system, gravity, planet
> **Comments:**
> **username_2**: Well, one could use $GM/r^2$, where $GM$ is the [standard gravitational parameter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_gravitational_parameter) and $r$ is some typical distance. So the question is basically equivalent to asking for a typical distance between Earth and the body in question. For Earth-Sun or Earth-Moon, it's sensible to use the semi-major axis of the relevant orbit, but... how do you want to measure the rest? It's essentially easy to get a rough figure, but potentially hard if you want some spatial or temporal average, etc.  
> **username_0**: I know I can calculate with the mass of the planet and the distance from it, i was just hoping these are well known figures i could find on the internet, without having to calculate all of them myself. It is a simple calculation though, I will if I have to, just trying to save myself some time. though i probably could have done it by now myself :)  
> **username_3**: @MarcusQuinnRodriguezTenes : Please post your results if you decide to do the calculations yourself. I think I might be a little lazy... :p  
> **username_1**: @MarcusQuinnRodriguezTenes Remember that all planets form a corotational system together with the sun, so the distances between two planets - or a planet and a point of observation on Earth - *is not constant*. Henceforth, the values you calculate with and get for the gravity change with time, **but** you can fairly easily create a program to compute the exact values at a given time, as the "exact" positions of the planets with respect to time can be found on various freely available databases :)  

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## 2 answers

### Answer by username_4 on 2015-12-30. Score: 9

Because of the inverse square law for Newtonian gravity we have the acceleration due the gravity $g\_b$ at the surface of the Earth due to a body of mass $m\_b$ at a distance $d\_b \gg r\_e$ (where $r\_e\approx 6371 \mbox{km}$ denotes the radius of the Earth, note all distances will need be in $\mbox{km}$ in what follows) is:
$$
g\_b=g\times \frac{m\_b}{m\_e}\times \left(\frac{r\_e}{d\_b}\right)^2
$$
where $g$ is the usual accelleration due to gravity (from the Earth at the Earth's surface $\approx 10 \mbox{m/s}^2$, and $m\_e\approx 6.0 \times 10^{24} \mbox{kg}$. We get the maximum acceleration due to a body when that body is at its closest to the Earth, which is what we do from now on (except for the Sun and Moon where the mean distance is used).

Now for the Moon $r\_b\approx 0.384 \times 10^6 \mbox{km}$, and $m\_b\approx 7.3 \times 10^{22} \mbox{kg}$, so the accelleration at the Earth's surface due to the Moon $g\_b\approx 3.3 \times 10^{-5} \mbox{m/s}^2$

Then putting this relation and Solar-System data into a spread sheet we get:
[![enter image description here](https://i.sstatic.net/Nf3Bi.png)](https://i.sstatic.net/Nf3Bi.png)

> **Comments:**
> **username_7**: Thanks for this. Looking at column D, does this infer that when Mars is closed (every two years?), the gravitational effect on Earth is twice that of the moon?  
> **username_4**: No, look at the exponents the Moon has a "g" of $\approx 6\times 10^{-3} \mbox{ m/s}^2 $ and Mars has a "g" of $\approx 7\times 10^{-9} \mbox{ m/s}^2 $, that is about six orders of magnitude lower.  
> **username_8**: You might want to add, that you actually can't "feel" the gravity of the sun, as earth is on a stable orbit around the sund the zentrifugal force ~= gravitational force (on the surface of the earth).  
> **username_7**: That clears it up. Ty  
> **username_5**: Any ideas what those forces would feel like in layman's terms? How little force is 1.88E-7 ?  
> **username_6**: @joseph.hainline  in layman's terms, a g force of 1.88e-7 couldn't be felt.  Not close.  A 200 lbs man under that low a g force would several times lighter than a feather, you could lift a truck, in that g-force, with your pinky.  You might be able to lift a 747.   Now, heavy objects still have inertia, so you couldn't, for example, throw a truck like a baseball, but you could hold it up, against a gravity that low easily.   The astronauts in "weightless orbit" likely feel significantly more g-forces than that, and they float around like nothing.  
> **username_6**: Small point to add to this, even those imperceptibly tiny g forces, the largest planetary one being Jupiter, 3.25E-7 *9.81 m/s^2, if you roughly calculate distance traveled using d = 1/2 a t^2, Jupiter does measurably move Earth every orbit, at least, the distance of a few earth diameters.   That's not much at all compared to 93 million miles, but it's still measurable.  That movement roughly, but not entirely, balances out every Jupiter orbit, 11 years and it's responsible for the orbital eccentricity variation which is one of the Milankovich cycles.  
> **username_9**: really an useless answer for astroLOGISTs coming here to figure out how planets affect their lves...  

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### Answer by username_9 on 2021-04-22. Score: 0

The force any planet produces on a 75kg person is given by formula:
F = G * M * m / r^2
Hence:

body    minimum distance (km)   Mass (kg)   Force (Newton)  % earth
Earth    6.341,00    6.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000,00    746,488018227  
Moon     384.000,00      73.000.000.000.000.000.000.000,00   0,002476552    0,000331760%
Sun  150.000.000,00      1.990.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000,00    0,442443333    0,059269985%
Venus    42.000.000,00   4.900.000.000.000.000.000.000.000,00    0,000013896    0,000001861%
Mars     78.000.000,00   640.000.000.000.000.000.000.000,00      0,000000526    0,000000070%
Juipter  629.000.000,00      1.900.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000,00    0,000024024    0,000003218%
Saturn   1.280.000.000,00    570.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000,00      0,000001740    0,000000233%
Uranus   2.730.000.000,00    87.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000,00   0,000000058    0,000000008%
Neptune  4.150.000.000,00    100.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000,00      0,000000029    0,000000004%

> **Comments:**
> **username_10**: Consider using scientific notation or a [Markdown table](/editing-help#tables).  
> **username_9**: no, I intentionally did not use scientific notation because the answer is for people not acquainted to it and which is not able to figure out that 2E06 is NOT the double of 1E09 (see comments to the other answer, indeed).  

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