Kapoeta is a historic witnessed Howardite fall that occurred on 22 April 1942 near Kapoeta, in what is now South Sudan. A single stone weighing just over 11 kg was recovered from the Kapoeta-Nathalani road, giving the meteorite strong provenance and a well-documented place in meteorite history. As a Howardite, Kapoeta belongs to the HED meteorite family, a group widely associated with asteroid 4 Vesta and representing mixed material from its surface and shallow crust.

Kapoeta is a polymict regolith breccia, composed mainly of Eucritic and Diogenitic material mixed by repeated impact processing on its parent body. It contains rock and mineral clasts, impact-melt material, glassy components, and evidence of complex regolith evolution. Kapoeta is also especially interesting because it includes Carbonaceous Chondrite fragments, mostly linked to CM-type material, showing that foreign impactor material became mixed into the Vestan regolith before the meteorite was eventually launched into space.

Studying Kapoeta provides valuable insight into the surface history of Vesta, including impact gardening, regolith formation, and the mixing of materials from different sources. Its witnessed fall status, limited recovered mass, HED classification, and unusual Carbonaceous inclusions make it especially desirable for collectors of Achondrites, historic falls, and classic named meteorites. Each specimen represents ancient Vestan surface material connected to a clearly documented fall in East Africa.