When Is Gpe 0?

If an object is taken from earth's surface to infinity, it's gravitational potential energy becomes zero (always taken as zero), but it doesn't make any sense as energy can never be destroyed so where did that kinetic energy go?

What does it mean when potential energy is zero?

For example, the lowest height in a problem is usually defined as zero potential energy, or if an object is in space, the farthest point away from the system is often defined as zero potential energy.

Where is gravitational potential zero?

We place the zero point of gravitational potential energy at a distance r of infinity. This makes all values of the gravitational potential energy negative. It turns out that it makes sense to do this because as the distance r becomes large, the gravitational force tends rapidly towards zero.