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Another nice Alpha-Capricornid flew above Murcia (South East Spain) skies on August 1st, at 22h12 UT.
This event was registered with the SMART Project’s detector operated at Calar Alto (Almería), La Hita (Toledo), Sierra Nevada (Granada), La Sagra (Granada), Huelva and Seville observatories.
In this case, three of the external cameras located at Calar Alto Observatory in Almería, could also register this nice fireball.
Following the preliminary analysis carried out by Profesor José María Madiedo (Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía IAA-CSIC), PI of SMART Project, this event was an Alpha-Capricornid. The parent body creating the debris that forms this shower is the 169P/NEAT comet.
In this case, the luminous part of the phenomena started at an altitude of 104 km above Murcia province ground. The object then moved northwestward and finished with a bright fulguration at an altitude of 73 km above the same province. The initial speed was 90.000 km/h.
Below are the videos registered from 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.