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Given information
It is given that:
Mass of the Astronaut
distance from the center of moon is
The astronaut is accelerating towards the moon and is this acceleration is given by
Step-by-step explanation
Step 1.
The astronaut is accelerating at , towards the moon
The net force acting on the astronaut is:
, where is the normal force on astronaut by spacecraft .
Then:
is acceleration due to gravity in moon and is expressed as:
,where is the mass of the moon and is the distance of Astronaut from the surface of moon is the universal Gravitational constant
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