Re: Forces w/o third-law partners???????

["John S. Denker" <jsd@MONMOUTH.COM>]

At 07:40 PM 10/20/99 -0700, Leigh Palmer wrote in part:
> the force that acts on a body in an
> Earth based lab, that I have been calling "weight", doesn't have a
> third law partner. The gravitational force the body exerts on the
> Earth isn't quite the same magnitude and it doesn't act in exactly in
> the opposite direction.

That appears to be tantamount to a statement that momentum is not conserved.

Are we really going to claim that gravitation doesn't conserve momentum?
Yikes!

Forces without third-law partners?  Somebody please tell me this doesn't
say what it seems to say.