how would you pull a mass to you, using the gravity of the mass in zero gravity?"like space"?

Answer 1

Try calculating the gravitational force between you and whatever object you are thinking about. You'll probably discover that it's so much smaller than all the other forces in play that it can be ignored. The best way to pull an object toward you in space is to pull on a string attached to it. A manipulator arm or a magnetic field would also be candidates.

Answer 2

If I read your question right, you are wondering how one can use gravity to say tug an asteroid around, when there is supposedly no gravity force in "zero g" space.

The answer is that the term "zero g" is misleading. There is gravity everywhere, but in orbit you are basically in free-fall so you feel weightless, as if there is no gravity. But it's still out there working, and a tug can indeed pull on an asteroid to say keep it from swatting earth on its next fly by.

Answer 3

IN space, gravity pulls from all sides causing the attraction forces to cancel themselves.But gravity is a force which is highly dependable on the mass.Therefore, you cannot see such thing in real life.

Answer 4

Most things of ordinary size don't produce gravity that you'd notice unless you can measure very, very carefully. In zero g, you can pull things towards you. Conservation of momentum often plays a more noticeable role, though, because you may not be well anchored to a massive surface like the earth that can absorb any momentum.

Answer 5

Your do have a gravitational pull, yet your pull while in comparison with the earth's pull is so small that the paper will purely be pulled to the earth. it may be like attempting to appeal to purely somewhat steel from an MRI device with a refrigerator magnet.

Answer 6

not sure what you are asking. will say that when you pull on an object in space, your body will also move toward the object. the one with the least mass (object and you body)will travel the most.

Answer 7

You'd just have to wait for it to get close enough for you to grab unless you wanted to try to move to it...this assumes however that there are no other, larger, bodies that will apply a larger gravitational force to it and actually pull it away from you...