The Tonga Trench is located at the tectonic boundary between the Pacific Plate and the Indian-Australian Plate.
It is an Oceanic trench that is located in the south-west Pacific Ocean. It is actually the deepest trench of the southern Hemisphere and the second deepest on Earth.
Answer:
The surface gravity g of the planet is 1/4 of the surface gravity on earth.
Explanation:
Surface gravity is given by the following formula:
So the gravity of both the earth and the planet is written in terms of their own radius, so we get:
The problem tells us the radius of the planet is twice that of the radius on earth, so:
If we substituted that into the gravity of the planet equation we would end up with the following formula:
Which yields:
So we can now compare the two gravities:
When simplifying the ratio we end up with:
So the gravity acceleration on the surface of the planet is 1/4 of that on the surface of Earth.