[meteorite-list] Extreme melting event defines Earth's early history

[MexicoDoug at aol.com]

Darren G. writes:

>If chondrites with a close to "solar average" composition are close  enough
>to the Earth to be nudgable into an Earth-intercepting orbit, why  would it b
e
>such a stretch to think that the Earth could be made up of chondrites  that,
>overall, averaged out to the "solar average"?
 
Ergodically considered, the average position of the Earth+Moon over its  
annual rotational period, measured from the Sun is near the center of the Sun,  
and Earth's average radius vector from Earth's center approach  zero.  So if we 
are biased in favor of averages instead of  interesting perturbations, Earth 
doesn't exist despite recent  scientific observations to the contrary...but we 
still have the number "0"  we can write on a piece of paper and file away, so 
that certainly motivates food  for thought?
Saludos, Doug
(lacking a few degrees of freedom at the moment)