Newton's law of universal gravitation

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Predicate	Object
gptkbp:instanceOf	gptkb:physical_phenomenon
gptkbp:appliesTo	all objects with mass
gptkbp:category	physics gravitational theories
gptkbp:describes	gravitational attraction
gptkbp:forceInverselyProportionalTo	square of the distance between the centers of the masses
gptkbp:forceProportionalTo	product of the two masses
gptkbp:form	F = G * (m1 * m2) / r^2
gptkbp:formedBy	gptkb:Isaac_Newton 1687
gptkbp:hasConstant	gravitational constant
gptkbp:influenced	gptkb:classical_mechanics
gptkbp:publishedIn	gptkb:Philosophiæ_Naturalis_Principia_Mathematica
gptkbp:relatedTo	gptkb:Kepler's_laws_of_planetary_motion gptkb:Einstein's_theory_of_general_relativity
gptkbp:replacedBy	gptkb:general_relativity
gptkbp:state	Every point mass attracts every other point mass by a force acting along the line intersecting both points.
gptkbp:usedIn	astrophysics celestial mechanics orbital mechanics
gptkbp:bfsParent	gptkb:Cavendish_experiment gptkb:Einstein_field_equations gptkb:Einstein's_field_equations gptkb:Newtonian_gravity
gptkbp:bfsLayer	5
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label	Newton's law of universal gravitation