Peramiho

Seen to fall in 1899 in Tanzania · 165 g recovered · Eucrite-mmict

Peramiho is the earliest and lightest of the eight falls recorded in Tanzania. It is the only Eucrite-mmict fall recorded in Tanzania.

Group: Eucrites, howardites and diogenites
Recorded position: 10.667° S, 35.500° E

The map is centred on Peramiho. Rings every 200 km; numbers match the table below.

Nearest recorded falls

The closest recorded fall to Peramiho is Mtola, 237 km to the south-west. Within 250 km lie two other recorded falls.

#	Fall	Year	Class	Recovered	Distance
1	Mtola	1944	Unclassified stone	1.1 kg	237 km south-west
2	Chisenga	1988	Iron, IIIAB	3.9 kg	240 km west
3	Ishinga	1954	H	1.3 kg	268 km north-west
4	Rupota	1949	L4-6	6 kg	360 km east
5	Dowa	1976	Unclassified stone	642 g	375 km south-west
6	Ivuna	1938	CI1	705 g	419 km north-west

What Eucrite-mmict means

Eucrite-mmict is the label for a eucrite, a basaltic rock from the crust of a melted parent body. By recovered mass Peramiho ranks 16th of the 18 Eucrite-mmict falls. The nearest other Eucrite-mmict fall is Béréba in Burkina Faso, 4,987 km away. In date order among Eucrite-mmict falls, the one before Peramiho is Haraiya (1878, India) and the one after is Emmaville (1900, Australia).

Dark ticks: 18 Eucrite-mmict falls, median 2.1 kg (dotted). Grey: all others.

Peramiho in Tanzania’s record

The next fall recorded in Tanzania is Malampaka, in 1930.

Bigger dots carry more recovered mass.

The 1890s

Peramiho is one of 51 falls dated to the 1890s. Elsewhere, the record lists six other falls in 1899, among them Bjurböle in Finland, Allegan in the United States, Zomba in Malawi.