6. A basketball has mass but the Earth's mass is much greater. So when you throw a basketball in the air, Earth's gravity pulls it down. That's why the basketball falls toward the ground. If you threw the basketball on the moon, it would go a lot farther. If you threw it in space, it would go on forever, or at least until it flew past something with a lot of gravity to pull it in. you were to throw a basketball on a planet with distance. mass than Earth, the ball would travel a(n) A. less, longer B. less, shorter C. more, longer D. more, equal​