¶ Orbiting (1)
RBF Definitions
"Unlike ninety-nine point nine nine nine
Percent of all humans,
Goddard, carefully heeding the laws
Of both mass attraction and precession,
Realized that an object,
Rocket-propelled or accelerated,
Into a different velocity–
And into a different direction
To that of the Earth’s
Speed and course around the Sun–
Would have its gravitational pull
Toward the Earth
Reduced fourfold
Every time it doubled
Its distance away from the Earth;
Only a hundred miles out
From our Earth’s surface
The attraction would be
So diminished
That it would permit the Moon’s pull
To become significant,
At which distance"
¶ Citations
- INTUITION, p.32 May '72
