¶ Orbiting (2)
Index Entry
Orbiting:
"The rocketed object
Would lose its tendency
To fall abck into the Earth,
And now affected dominantly
By the integrated mass attractions
Of all other celestial bodies,
Would go into orbit
Around our Earth.
"And to understand
How little is that
One-hundred-mile distance
Out from Earth’s surface
At which orbiting
Replaces the tendency
To fall back into the Earth,
We note that The thickness of a matchstick
Out from the surface
Of a twelve-inch diametered
Household ‘World Globe’
Is the distance at which
Our first rocketed objects
Do go into orbit." -
¶ Citations
- INTUITION,pp.32-33, May '72
