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A very bright and fast Perseid in daylight could be seen during last August 8th evening, at 19h55 UT.
This object was registered with the SMART Project’s detector operated at Calar Alto (Almería), La Hita (Toledo), Sierra Nevada (Granada), Huelva and Seville observatories.
Three of the external cameras of the Calar Alto Observatory in Almería also followed this nice event.
Following the preliminary analysis carried out by Professor José María Madiedo (Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía IAA_CSIC), PI of the SMART Project, this Perseid which its originating body is the well-known Swift-Tuttle comet, entered in our atmosphere at a speed of 217.000 km/h.
Its luminous part started at an altitude of 116 km above the south of Lorca (Murcia Region in southeast Spain), moving then northeastward, and finishing at an altitude of 86 km. Then the object then returned to the space as it was an earth-grazing fireball.
Below are the videos from the three cameras operated at Calar Alto Observatory.
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.