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During the night of October 6th, another nice fireball crossed the skies of Extremadura, Ciudad Real and Córdoba, on the center-south part of Spain.
The event took place at 00h44 UT, and it was registered with the SMART Project’s detectors operated at Calar Alto (Almería), La Hita (Toledo), Sierra Nevada (Granada), La Sagra (Granada), Huelva and Seville observatories.
This time, two of the external cameras of the Calar Alto Observatory in Almería, also registered this event.
The conclusions that the PI of the SMART Project, Professor José María Madiedo (Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía IAA-CSIC), extracted from his preliminary analysis is that this object had his origin in a comet. The luminous part of the event started with an estimated speed of 127.000 km/h, at an altitude of 104 km above Extremadura region. Then the fireball moved southeastward, crossing a little part of the west-south of Ciudad Real, and it entered into Córdoba province and finished at an altitude of 29 km above the ground of Córdoba province.
Below are the videos registered with the external cameras of 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.