From: J. Maynard Gelinas <j.maynard.gelinas.nul>
Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2009 19:17:57 -0500
Archived: Sun, 08 Mar 2009 08:20:13 -0400
Subject: Re: Kepler Mission In Space


>From: Eleanor White <ewraven1.nul>
>To: post.nul
>Date: Sat, 07 Mar 2009 18:03:53 -0500
>Subject: Re: Kepler Mission In Space

>>From: NASA News <hqnews.nul>
>>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <post.nul>
>>Date: Sat 07 Mar 2009 01:00:01 EST
>>Subject: NASA's Kepler Mission Rockets To Space In Search Of Other
>>Earths

><snip>

>>Engineers acquired a signal from Kepler at 12:11 a.m. Saturday,
>>after it separated from its spent third-stage rocket and entered
>>its final sun-centered orbit, trailing 950 miles behind Earth.
>>The spacecraft is generating its own power from its solar
>>panels.

>Huh? What'll keep it from being sucked back towards and
>ultimately smashing into Earth, the result of Earth's gravity?


It has acquired enough momentum via rocket propulsion to escape
earth's gravity well.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Momentum



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