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Name:  Samantha D.
Status:  student
Age:  13
Location: N/A
Country: N/A
Date: 2000-2001
Question:
Will your height affect the way gravity pulls on you? Does gravity pull on you more or less if you are tall?

Replies:
Height is insignificant compared to the radius of the earth. What is more significant is mass. Since taller people tend to be more massive, they are more attractive to the earth.

---Nathan A. Unterman


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