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The object's mass is the same wherever it is. Mass doesn't change. What changes is the object's weight.

The weight depends on what other mass happens to be nearby.

When you know the object's weight on earth, multiply that by 0.1633 to find its weight on the moon.

If you don't need it that close, it might be easier to just divide the earth weight by 6.

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