As the Earth formed and prior to the iron catastrophe the density of the matter would be more even throughout so the accretion would be at the equatorial region as has been suggested previously in this thread. That is certainly a novel idea and has seldom been argued before.

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As the Earth formed and prior to the iron catastrophe the density of the matter would be more even throughout so the accretion would be at the equatorial region as has been suggested previously in this thread. That is certainly a novel idea and has seldom been argued before.

 

I haven't noticed that idea coming up, but I can't see how it's viable, anyway. How would you explain preferential accretion at the equator? This doesn't make sense statistically and maybe that's the reason it hasn't been argued before.