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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

1. INTUITION,pp.32-33, May '72