In recent years, astronomers have found planets orbiting nearby stars that are quite different from the planets in our solar system. Kepler-12b has a diameter that is 1.7 times the diameter of Jupiter and has only 0.43 times the mass of Jupiter. Calculate the value of the acceleration due to gravity g at the surface of this large, lowdensity

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