  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.
