"Every body continues in its state of rest or motion in a DIRECTION GOVERNED BY THE MOVEMENT OF THE AETHER except in so far as it is compelled by forces to change that state." If I understand correctly, the above statement implies that the motion of an object in space is to tend toward an orbit about the earth. This may be due to a) frame dragging or b) a "push" by some physical property of the aether as it rotates about the earth. So, if a rocket were sent far into space and then decelerated to a point where its onboard sensors indicated a velocity of "0", we would expect it to begin accelerating into a circular orbit about the earth such that its period eventually synchronizes with the Aether, which we assume to be one earth day. How long would that take? This thought experiment neglects for the moment that the aether may be "dragging" or "pushing" on the rocket during its entire flight up to and beyond the moment it "stopped". This leads me to question why, after thousands of years, the other planets are still orbiting the Sun and have not been "dragged" or "pushed" into orbit around earth. The natural conclusion would be that the Sun exerts sufficient force on those other bodies to keep them in orbit about itself. That is fine if you believe that gravity (or whatever the controlling force) depends upon mass or some other property of the Sun, or at least is not confined to some unique property of earth. Comments? Bob