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During the early morning of January 24th 2025, at 06h20 UT, an impressive fireball crossed the skies of Albacete, Murcia and Alicante in Southeast Spain.
The 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), Marçà (Tarragona) and Seville observatories.
In this case this object was also followed by three of the external cameras located at Calar Alto Observatory.
The conclusions obtained once the preliminary analysis was finished by Professor José María Madiedo (Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía IAA-CSIC), PI of the SMART Project, are the next:
- Type of event: asteroidal
- Initial speed: 114.000 km/h
- Initial altitude: 100 km
- Final altitude: 40 km
Below are the videos registered with the three 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.