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To figure out what you weigh on the surface of the Moon (how much gravity there pulls you downward), you need to know- just the distance from the Moon's center to its surface- just the size of the Moon's orbit around the Earth (its semi-major axis, say)- just the mass of the Moon- which part of its orbit the Moon is in
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