Another bright fireball above mid south Spain on September 14th

A new bright fireball flew above mid south Spain's skies on September 14th 2020.

This event happened at  00:22 UT  (02:22 local time) above Ciudad Real and Córdoba provincies and could be registered with the SMART Project's detectors operated at Calar Alto (Almería), La Sagra (Granada), La Hita (Toledo) and Seville observatories.

The object could also be registered with one of the Calar Alto Observatory (Almería) external surveillance webcam.

Following the preliminary analysis carried out by Professor José María Madiedo (Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía IAA-CSIC), this was a cometary event. A rock detached from a comet impacted against our atmosphere at an estimated speed of about 80.000 km/h.

The initial altitude of the luminous event was of 102 km on Ciudad Real province skies (mid south Spain). The object then moved southeastward crossing Ciudad Real province to finish on Córdoba province at an altitude of about 34 km above the ground.

The path this fireball followed is shown on the above image

Below is the video that could be registered with Calar Alto Observatory external surveillance webcam.

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.