Abstract
The /kLowicz meteorite shower fell on March 12, 1935, covering an area of 9 km 2. The histogram accounting for 96 specimens of this meteorite with masses ranging from 2 to 10 4 g, expressed in Krumbein phi-units, has been interpreted in terms of a lognormal frequency distribution. The values of −5.43, 1.12, 0.313 and 1.20 were obtained with a graphical method as estimates for the mean, standard deviation, skewness and kurtosis respectively. The inadequacy of the exponential law for the distribution, proposed by Hartmann, Frost and Hellyer, is shown. An attempt is made to explain some aspect of the correlation between the meteoric phenomenon of fragmentation and the mass (size) distribution of meteorite fragments.
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