How far away would one have to travel from the Earth to experience no gravitational effects?
According to Newton’s Law of Universal Gravitation, an object of mass will experience a gravitational attraction to the Earth no matter where the object is in the universe. However, after achieving a particular distance from the Earth, that force would be too small to notice. At approximately 2,640 km or 1,640 miles, the gravitational pull would be 50% of what it would be on the surface of the Earth. At a distance of 574,000 km or 357,000 miles, the force would be 1% of the gravitational pull, or virtually weightless. That distance is equal to nine Earth radii away from the surface of the Earth, or four and a half times the Earth’s diameter.
