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It has the same average density, but doesn't produce the same gravity anomaly.

If the submarine were a perfect spherical shell of denser and lighter sub-shells, everything would cancel out. However, they're not. They're essentially really dense blobs attached to much less dense blobs.

You get a gravity anomaly due to the lack of spherical symmetry.



Thanks for the clarification. I presume the really dense blob is the reactor and the less dense blobs are the air-filled crew compartments?




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