Seville Spain.
A fireball originating from a comet passing through part of the sky Central and Southern Spain, at a speed of about 230,000 kilometers per hour, until it broke up near the Gulf of Cádiz, between this province and Huelva, in the vertical direction of the city of Jerez de la Frontera.
In its official social networks, the SMART project, from the Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia (IAA-CSIC), reported that around 5:08 am (local Spanish peninsula time) a ball as bright as the full moon could be seen hitting 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 Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía.
Atmosphere
This analysis has made it possible to determine that the rock that caused this phenomenon entered Earth’s atmosphere at a speed of about 230,000 kilometers per hour and it came from a comet.
The sudden friction with the atmosphere at that speed made the rock glow and become so exciting a ball of fire which started at an altitude of about 113 kilometers above the Sierra de Cádiz and it was moving rapidly northwest.
The fireball was extinguished at an altitude of about 58 kilometers, almost above the vertical of Jerez de la Frontera (Cádiz).
He phenomenon was so bright that could be seen from more than 500 kilometers away.
The fireball It has been registered by the SMART project detectors of the astronomical observatories of La Sagra (Granada), La Hita (Toledo) and Seville.
These detectors operate under the Southwest Europe Fireball and Meteor Network (SWEMN), which aims to continuously monitor the sky to record and study the impact of rocks from various objects in the solar system against the earth’s atmosphere.