• Question: does different parts of the world have different gravity amounts?

    Asked by Tommy to Tom on 10 Mar 2015.
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      Thomas Barrett answered on 10 Mar 2015:


      Yep you can see a gravity map of the earth in the link below. Local variations in topography (such as mountains) and geology (such as the density of rocks in an area) cause changes in the Earth’s gravitational field, known as gravitational anomalies.

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_of_Earth

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