Seville, Spain.
one fireball coming from a comet crossed last morning part of the sky of the central and southern Spain, At a speed of about 230,000 kilometers per hour, until disintegrating near the Gulf of Cádiz, between this province and Huelva, in the vertical of the town of Jerez de la Frontera.
On its official social networks, the SMART project, From the Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia (IAA-CSIC), has reported that around 05:08 (Catalan local time) a ball as bright as the full moon could be seen crossing the southern sky and the center of the country.
The fact has been analyzed by the researcher responsible for the SMART project, the astrophysicist José María Madiedo of the Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia.
atmosphere
This analysis has made it possible to determine than the rock that originated this phenomenon entered the Earth’s atmosphere at one speed of about 230,000 miles per hour and came from a comet.
The sudden friction with the atmosphere at this speed caused the rock to become incandescent, thus generating a fireball which began at an altitude of about 113 kilometers above the Sierra de Cádiz and moved rapidly in a northwesterly direction.
The fireball was extinguished at an altitude of about 58 kilometers almost above the vertical of Jerez de la Frontera (Cádiz).
the phenomenon was so brilliant which could be seen from more than 500 miles away.
the fireball has been recorded by SMART project detectors from the astronomical observatories of La Sagra (Granada), La Hita (Toledo) and Seville.
These detectors operate within the framework of the Southwest European Fireball and Meteor Network (SWEMN), which aims to continuously monitor the sky in order to record and study the impact against the Earth’s atmosphere of rocks from different objects in the solar system.