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Last night of January 9th 2025, a bright fireball could be observed above Palencia and León provinces in northern Spain.
This event was registered with the SMART Project’s detectors operated at Calar Alto (Almería), Sierra Nevada and La Sagra (Granada), Olocau (Valencia), La Hita (Toledo), Faro de Cullera (Valencia) and Marçà (Tarragona)
Although Palencia and León more than 600 km away from Calar Alto Observatory in Almería, two of its external cameras could also follow this object.
Professor José María Madiedo (Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía IAA-CSIC), PI of SMART Project, has made the preliminary analysis. The details are:
Type of event: asteroidal
Initial speed: 67.000 km/h
Initial altitude: 86 km
Final altitude: 23 km
It is important to mention that part of this meteoroid has reached the ground as a meteorite.
Below are the two videos that the external cameras operated at Calar Alto Observatory, in Almería, have registered.
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.