Research Article

On the Mass Distribution of Fragments of an Asteroid Disrupted in the Earth’s Atmosphere

Figure 7

Сumulative number of fragments versus normalized fragment mass for Košice meteorites. Violet dots: catalogue data [69, 76], red and blue lines: formula (8) at β = 0.7 and 0.5; ml = 2.374 kg; (a) 218 fragments, M = 11.285 kg; (b) 223 fragments (5 invisible), M = 13.3–13.8 kg; (c) 223 fragments (5 invisible), two largest fragments with mass 2.271 kg, M = 13.8 kg, nl = 2; (d) 216 fragments, M = 6.744 kg; ml = 0.318 kg.
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