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After the impressive fireball of January 9th, one day after, another object could be observed in this case above south Spain, between Málaga and Benalmádena.
SMART Project’s detectors registered this event. This time, the firewall was followed with the detectors operated at Calar Alto (Almería), La Hita (Toledo), Huelva, Sierra Nevada (Granada), La Sagra (Granada), Otura (Granada) and Seville observatories.
And again, two of the external cameras located at Calar Alto Observatory in Almería also recorded this nice fireball.
Following the preliminary analysis carried out by Professor José María Madiedo (Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía IAA-CSIC), PI of the SMART Project, this event was caused by a detached rock from a comet that has entered into our atmosphere at an estimated speed of 58.000 km/h.
The luminous part of the event took place to the north of Benalmadena town, in Málaga province, at an altitude of 83 km. Then this object moved northwestward and finished at an altitude of 29 km above the ground.
Below are the videos that were registered with two of the 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.