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Last night, August 23, at 03:21 UT, a very bright fireball streaked across the skies over the Alboran Sea.
The event was registered by the SMART Project's detectors operated at Calar Alto (Almería), La Hita (Toledo), Sierra Nevada (Granada), La Sagra (Granada), Mazagón (Huelva), Huelva, and Seville observatories.
Two of the external cameras at the Calar Alto Observatory in Almería were also able to track this beautiful object.
According to the preliminary analysis carried out by Professor José María Madiedo (IAA-CSIC), it was a firewall with an asteroid origin, which entered our atmosphere at an initial speed of 77,000 km/h. The object then moved from southwest to northeast. The initial altitude of the luminous phenomenon was approximately 87 km, while the final altitude was 28 km above the Mediterranean Sea.
Below are the videos of this nice event registered with two of the south 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.