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Statistical tests of chondrule sorting |
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| Authors: | Seth A TEITLER Julie M PAQUE Jeffrey N CUZZI Robert C HOGAN |
| Institution: | 1. Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA;2. Department of Astronomy, University of Wisconsin‐Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA;3. Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA;4. Space Science Division, NASA‐Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California 94035, USA;5. BAER, Inc., Sonoma, California 95476, USA |
| Abstract: | Abstract– The variation in sizes of chondrules from one chondrite to the next is thought to be due to some sorting process in the early solar nebula. Hypotheses for the sorting process include chondrule sorting by mass and sorting by some aerodynamic mechanism; one such aerodynamic mechanism is the process of turbulent concentration (TC). We present the results of a series of statistical tests of chondrule data from several different chondrites. The data do not clearly distinguish between various options for the sorting parameter, but we find that the data are inconsistent with being drawn from lognormal or (three‐parameter) Weibull distributions in chondrule radius. We also find that all but one of the chondrule data sets tested are consistent with being drawn from the TC distribution. |
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