When moon is directly overhead you will weigh slightly less!
Well, it’s all related to gravity. Newton’s law of gravitation (also called as law of attraction) is used to explain the gravity or gravitational force. It states that: Every massive particle in the universe attracts every other massive particle with a force which is directly proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of distance between them. Earth applies much huge gravitational force on a standing person, this is because of very large mass of earth (approximately 5.97*10*24 Kg). Considering moon, it has relatively smaller mass (7.34*10^22 Kg). So, moon exerts tiny gravitational force as compared to earth. As forces are vectors as they have both direction and magnitude, direction of gravitational force applied by earth is towards the center. At the other end gravitational force applied by the moon acts in opposite direction to that of the moon i.e., “upwards”. Therefore, gravitational force of moon acting directly above the object reduces