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You can get much closer to the center of a soccer ball than you can a moon. And since gravity falls off with the square of distance it's a very significant difference.

A, yes, went and calculated the force for 1 meter distance. 392 tera newtons :O

Now do the tidal forces

I went and asked GPT chat : "does the force of gravity depend on size of the object?"

"The force of gravity is proportional to the mass of the object. The size of the object does not affect the gravitational force. This means that two objects with different sizes but the same mass will experience the same gravitational force. For example, a small ball and a large ball made of the same material would experience the same gravitational force."

Force of gravity does depend on distance between the two objects though

I also asked my brother - a physicist. He confirms that it is correct.