(July 16, 2020 at 7:42 am)onlinebiker Wrote: You are an astronaut on the International Space Station. You are making an EVA in order to change a battery. When you finish up - you decide to be a litterbug and give the old battery a careful shove z straight "down" - that is - towards the planet's center mass.
What will be the path of the batteity - in relation to your point of view?
I don't see how shoving the battery will have any relation to the path of the batteity.