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Originally Posted by Infinite_Loser
I'm not big on astronomy so I'm probably wrong, but I thought a planet's gravity was determined by it's size in relation to the distance from it's parent star. Seeing as how the planet in question is closer to it's star than Earth is to the sun and is much more massive, I simply assumed the gravity on the planet was larger. I'm probably wrong, though.
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You're right.
About being wrong, I mean. The star does exert a gravitational pull on the planet, but when dealing with the planetary surface it's not a significant factor. It's the mass of the planet and the distance from it that are the big numbers in the equation.
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