And snow ‘falls’ in gravity. This aggregated somehow else.maybe by tenuous electrostatic attraction (some ice particles get positively ionized when a photo kicks out an electron, some get negatively ionized when an electron attaches to them, & cetera and eventually they clump together to make a roughly electrical neutral object. The. Hydrogen bonds kick in once it’s electrically neutral (assuming it’s made of water or other polar molecules).
Why does it have to be something else? Couldn't the particles have precipitated gravitationally inside a smallish dust cloud?