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📅 MIT Science Bowl 2024🎓 HS🔄 Round 5#️⃣ Question 10🌟 BONUS✍️ Short Answer

Newton's law of gravitation tells us that gravity weakens with the square of distance, which implies that the gravity experienced by the side of Earth near the sun is greater than that experienced by the side away from the sun. What is the term for this difference in force, which causes phenomena like spaghettification in neutron stars?

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