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I believe the idea is that the water was all cooked out of Earth's protoplanetary disk material before it even formed large chunks. So gravity never got a chanc

• o11c 1y ago
  Well, that seems to make 2 major assumptions (and several minor ones), both of which are probably false: * that the planetesimals that formed Earth had the same orbital characteristics (notably eccentricity), rather than being averaged out. * that planetesimals formed from dust in largely the same manner as planets form from planetesimals
  • andrewflnr 1y ago
    ...no, I don't think it makes either of those assumptions.