A hell of a lot higher than a person's height. Gravitational force is in inverse proportion to the square of the distance from a body. The classic gravity anal

A hell of a lot higher than a person's height. Gravitational force is in inverse proportion to the square of the distance from a body. The classic gravity analogy is billiard balls sitting on a stretched sheet of plastic. The force of gravity is like the slope of the dents on the plastic - very steep around individual bodies and dropping off quickly after that. So drop something close to any given body and it's going to have a much greater influence than a larger body further away.