It has magnitude and direction. A force is a change in momentum. Therefore acceleration can be caused by a force. The difference between mass and weight Mass is a characteristic of an object . A golfball will always have the same mass.
Weight is the action of a force on a mass.
That's why astronauts, etc. weigh less on the moon. The force of gravity is less on the moon so the astronauts weigh less even though their mass stays the same. They are constantly falling around the Earth but never hitting it. Like shooting a cannonball around the world. The Motion of the Planets At the beginning of the Renaissance European scholars still believed in the model of Ptolemy.