"Jonathan" wrote in message
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"Androcles" wrote in message
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"Jonathan" wrote in message
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Comments and criticism welcome.


It should be obvious to most the defining role that
inverse square relationships play in the physical
universe. And of the intuitive picture that the
larger the mass, the larger it's gravity well or
basin of attraction. So that any random path through
space is more likely to find itself pulled into the
larger gravity well, than the smaller one.

Utter bunk; the Moon is littered with craters where it was struck
by bodies that missed Earth and the Sun.


Oh, so you're saying more objects are likely to be
gravitationally pulled into the Earth, than say the...Sun?
I was speaking 'statistically', where a single
counter example is not a proper response.

And I said that was utter bunk; I did not say one crater, numbnuts.
Statistically the number of craters on the Moon are not a single
counter example. Statistically the number of hits per unit area on
the Moon will be the same as the number per unit area that hit the
Earth or the Sun.
You are making the assumption that if the rock starts from rest it
will gravitate toward the greater of two masses, but given any inverse
square law even that unlikely scenario is wrong or Schumaker-Levy
would have hit the Sun instead of Jupiter.
Now that IS a single counter example, all 21 of them.
http://www.space.com/common/media/vi...deoRef=sl9_ust