In this task, you are given a question and answer for that. The answer will fill in the blank or will complete the unfinished question. Your task is to provide an explanation based on the given question or fill-in-the-blank statement, and answer.

Q: Question: John was playing with alkanes in his lab. If he decreased the amount of carbon atoms in an alkane, what would happen to the boiling point of that alkane? 
 Answer: decrease?

A: Alkanes with more carbon atoms have higher boiling and melting points, so some of them are solids at room temperature.
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Q: Question: John was watching the particle accelerator and notating the reactions of the atoms. He observed that an object with less mass has a thermal energy that is 
 Answer: Less

A: Therefore, an object with more mass has greater thermal energy than an object with less mass, even if their individual atoms are moving at the same speed.
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Q: Question: An asteroid traveled equal distance between a small massed planet and a large massed planet and got caught by one of their gravitational pulls. Which one is more likely to have caught the asteroid? 
 Answer: Large planet

A:
Objects with greater mass have a stronger force of gravity between them.
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