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Continuing with the large number of events we are recording these nights, at 01h29 UT on the night of November 2nd, a beautiful fireball could be seen towards southeastern Spain, over North Africa and part of the Mediterranean.
The SMART Project stations that recorded this beautiful object were those operated at the observatories of Calar Alto in Almería, La Hita in Toledo, Sierra Nevada, La Sagra and Otura in Granada, and the Seville.
Two of the external cameras operated at Calar Alto Observatory also registered this nice event.
The data obtained by Professor José María Madiedo (Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia IAA-CSIC), Principal Investigator of the SMART Project, are as follows:
- Type of event: cometary
- Initial speed: 264.000 km/h
- Initial altitude: 131 km
- Final altitude: 81 km
Below are the videos from the external cameras of the 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.