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Punggur<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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PUNGUR – meteorite fall (H7-melt breccia, 6599 grams, in Mojopahit and Astomulyo (Punggur district) and Gunung Sugih, Central Lampung, Sumatra, Indonesia on 28 January 2021 shortly before 21:53:07 WIB (14:53:07 UTC)<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Last update: 23 April 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bolide and strewn field<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The exact find locations of the currently known five masses. The distance between the find locations of the 50-gram and the 2200-gram mass is 5497 meters, the distance between the 138.3-gramm mass and the 2200-gram mass is 2819 meters. The bolide seems to have come from a western to northwestern direction. Eyewitnesses from Central Lampung reported about a bolide with a subsequent dust cloud which was persistent for several dozen minutes. The bolide’s detonation was apparently also recorded by three southwestern Lampung province sensors (UTSI, KASI, PSSM) of the Indonesia Tsunami Early Warning System (InaTEWS) which by managed by the BMKG (Badan Meteorologi Klimatologi dan Geofisika) At ~14:53:07 UT the sensor UTSI recorded the signal first, then followed by KASI which recorded an ~8-second signal from ~14:53:56 to ~14:54:04 UT. From ~14:54:44 UT the signal was also recorded by the PSSM sensor. Thus the sensors received a signal coming from a northeastern direction. On 23 April 2021 the fall was officially registered in the Meteoritical Bulletin database as confirmed fall Pungur<\/strong><\/a> (H7-melt breccia). Image: karmaka<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The first mass<\/strong> (~2200 g, found on 28 January 2021)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The mass after it was soaked in water. Photo: ITERA<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Thursday, 28 January, shortly before 21:53:07 WIB (14:53:07 UTC) a 25-centimeter long mass (~2.2 kg) fell at location 5\u00b000’22.4″S, 105\u00b016’11.9″E<\/a> through the protruding roof of 60-year old Mujilah’s house in Dusun 5 (Mulyodadi) of Astomulyo, Punggur, Central Lampung, Sumatra. At around 9 p.m. Mujilah returned home to join her husband Muhtajam (68). Some time later they heard rumbling noises and three loud bangs outside. Initially Mujilah thought it was an exploding tire of a car. Then she heard a bang outside, at the backside of their house. The couple went outside immediately and found a rock at the foot of the impacted outer kitchen wall. Later the mass was put into an aquarium filled with water because the locals assumed the meteorite would transpire some substances into the water which would make it contain some kind of ‘healing power’. The water was then filled into small plastic bags and handed out to the local population. This very unfortunate procedure resulted in a considerable corrosion of the iron on the meteorite’s surface. After that a sample of about 400 grams was cut off the mass by researchers from the Sumatra Technology Institute (ITERA) who already at the fall site confirmed that the mass was an authentic meteorite. On 16 February ITERA reconfirmed the meteoritic nature of the mass in an article<\/a> on their website. The story of the 2200-gram mass has been widely published in Indonesian media. In March 2021 the 2.2-kilogram mass was sold and exported. The meteorite has been classified by Dr. Laurence Garvie at the Arizona State University.<\/p>\n\n\n