GALLERY OF SPACE SCIENCE POPULARIZED PUBLICATIONS
SCIENCE SERVICE BOOKLETS : GRAVITY
(1962)
Copyright, 1962, by Nelson Doubleday, Inc.
DISCUSSION
GRAVITY by Ben Patrusky (Nelson Doubleday, Inc - 1962) summarized the topic
of gravity and related the subject to space exploration. Gravity is the force
imparted by the earth to a mass on, or close to the earth. Since the earth
is rotating, the force observed as gravity is the resultant of the force of
gravitation and the centrifugal force arising from this rotation. (GLOSSARY
OF FREQUENTLY USED SPACE TERMS: NASA publication SP-1)
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