Consider a spherical asteroid with radius 28.2 km and mass of 5.69 x 1018 kg. The acceleration due to gravity at the surface of the asteroid is ? Possibly useful: Fg=Gm1m2/r2 G=6.67 x 10-11 Nm2/kg2

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