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The answer to
what is getting
upward momentum is, simply, the earth. The added
downward momentum from
the gas is from the gravitational attraction of the
each.
I advocate keeping it simple and accompanying the
answer with a
diagram showing the gas, the earth, the mutual forces
acting on each, and
nothing else.