{"id":26222,"date":"2021-02-17T11:08:46","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T10:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/?p=26222"},"modified":"2021-02-20T20:44:29","modified_gmt":"2021-02-20T19:44:29","slug":"apparent-meteorite-fall-in-falealupo-samoa-on-3-february-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/?p=26222","title":{"rendered":"Meteorite fall in Falealupo-Tai, Vaisigano, Savai’i, Samoa on 3 February 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Last update: 20 February 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On 12 February the Samoa Observer reported that a meteorite fell in the costal village Falealupo-Tai<\/a> in Vaisigano on Savai’i, Samoa in the morning or early afternoon on 3 February 2021. The air temperature around the time of the fall was around 30\u00b0 C, the sky was mostly cloudy, wind (16-18 mph) was coming from a northern direction and there was no precipitation. The owners of the meteorite started talking about the fall in social media from 8 February. As Tapuitea Sa’eu told the press, her husband Tiapili Gaono Tusani-Moe’ai, and a man referred to as ‘old man Penitusi’ were home in Falealupo-Tai repairing a car when they heard a thunder-like rumbling sound and saw a dark cloud in the sky. Moments later they heard a loud bang and thought a plane had crashed. A beautiful flat, triangular-shaped, flight-oriented and regmaglypted meteorite (most likely an ordinary chondrite (L-type ?)) had just fallen on a wall of volcanic rocks in front of the finder’s house and crashed some of the rocks of the wall. The meteorite (estim. ~ 15x14x7 cm max.) remained intact after its impact and ricocheted across the street where it landed. It was then picked up by Tiapili Gaono Tusani-Moe’ai who later told his wife that the meteorite was ‘cold as ice’ when he touched it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Afai e iai au fa\u02bbamatalaga fa\u02bbaopopo e uiga i tulaga o lenei meteorite fall (taimi sa\u02bbo, nofoaga, mamafa po\u02bbo le tele o le meteorite ma isi) e mafai ona fesoasoani e fa\u02bbaleleia le tulaga o lenei lipoti, fa\u02bbamolemole fa\u02bbafeso\u02bbota\u02bbi mai matou. Matou te talisapaia tele lenei! Faafetai!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The intact leading side of the triangular-shaped, conically flight-oriented and regmaglypted meteorite. Photo: Sialai Sarafina Sanerivi<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photo: Fina Elgar Penehuro (7 February 2021)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The meteorite at its impact site on the wall. Photo: Regina Maryknoll – Kona (8 February 2021)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The impact site where the meteorite hit a wall of volcanic rocks. Photo: Regina Maryknoll – Kona (8 February 2021)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The meteorite among volcanic rocks. Photo: Sialai Sarafina Sanerivi<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The meteorite at its impact site on the wall. Photo: Regina Maryknoll – Kona (8 February 2021)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photo: Sialai Sarafina Sanerivi<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Close-up of the blackish-brown fusion crust and regmaglypts in the centre of the leading side of the meteorite. Photo: Mane Tupa’i Unasa Tautua (10 February 2021)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Radiant flowlines and brownish fusion crust with patches of lithology on the trailing side of the meteorite. Photo: Mane Tupa’i Unasa Tautua (10 February 2021)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A magnet stuck to the trailing side of the meteorite which shows radiant flowlines. Photo: Sialai Sarafina Sanerivi<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Radiant flowlines on the trailing side of the meteorite. Photo: Pili Matamea<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Press<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

LINK<\/strong><\/a> (Samoa Observer, 17 February 2021)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LINK<\/strong><\/a> (Samoa Observer, 12 February 2021)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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