Surface Gravity Calculator
Want to know what the surface gravity is on any celestial object? You just need to know it's mass in terms of Earth masses (e.g. Earth = 1, Venus = 0.815, Mars = 0.107 etc.) and it's radius. This calculator will do the rest.
Radius of your planet | km | e.g. Earth=6378 |
Planetary Mass | express in Earth masses = e.g. Earth=1, Venus=0.815 | |
The result shows the gravity in terms of Earth gravities (1 Earth gravity = 1g).
A result of 1 gravity = 1 Earth gravity, or put another way 100% Earth gravity
A result of 1.5 gravity = 150% Earth gravity
This function is included in Orbital Calculatorplugin-autotooltip__default plugin-autotooltip_bigOrbital Calculator
I needed to calculate orbital characteristics for any orbit around any gravitational mass (because I write sci-fi stories), so I wrote this program because I'm a programmer and I'm too lazy to do it by hand all the time. The program has expanded over the last few years, sometimes from suggestions by other writers. I make it freely available and as simple to use as possible. It now has a list of functions as long as your arm (assuming you're not a tentacle user), and the numbe…, where it automatically calculates this when displaying object data (in the menu item Gravitational Masses/Manage)