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At the end of May 27th, at 23h13 UT, a bright and nice fireball crossed the west Granada Skies in South Spain.
This event was registered with the SMART Project’s detectors operated at Calar Alto (Almería), La Hita (Toledo), Sierra Nevada (Granada), La Sagra (Granada), Otura (Granada), Huelva and Seville observatories.
One of the external cameras of the Calar Alto Observatory in Almería, also could follow this nice object.
The phenomena has been analyzed by Professor José María Madiedo (Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía IAA-CSIC), PI of the SMART Project, and the preliminary analisys conclude that the fireball was a rock detached from a comet that enter in our atmosphere at a speed of about 146.000 km/h. The initial altitude of the luminous part of the event was 114 km. The fireball moved northwestward above the west part of Granada province in South Spain and finished at an altitude of 76 km above the ground.
The right picture shows the path this fireball followed above Granada province.
Below are the video recorded with one of the external cameras operated at Calar Alto Observatory in Almería.
Calar Alto (CAHA) fireball detection station, together with the one at the Observatory of Sierra Nevada (IAA-CSIC) and others placed at different locations in Spain, are part of the S.M.A.R.T. project led by Professor José María Madiedo (IAA) to track that kind of objects. Specifically, Calar Alto (CAHA) station and the one at Sierra Nevada (IAA-CSIC) constitute a collaboration agreement between the IAA researcher José María Madiedo and both institutions.