At some instant in time, two asteroids in deep space are a distance r=20 km apart. Asteroid 2 has 10 times the mass of asteroid 1. What is the ratio of their resulting acceleration (due to gravitational attraction to each other),

a1 / a2 =
BLUE: 10:1
YELLOW: 1:1
GREEN: 1:10
PURPLE: Not enough information
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