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What Roger says below is how I try to resolve the problem in my classes; I
don't define weight as the force of gravity on an object, but rather as what
the "bathroom" scale reads.
Then there is no problem for astronaughts, they
are weightless and there is a force of gravity acting on them, which
provides the centripetal force that . . .
PS. the above is obviously the intro physics discussion.