Bright fireball above Castilla La mancha (South Spain) on September 29th 2020

A new bright fireball flew above Castilla La Mancha (South Spain) last September 29th 2020 at 23:22 UT (01:22 local time of September 30th). 

This object could be registered with the SMART Project's detectors operated at La Sagra (Granada), Sierra Nevada (Granada), La Hita (Toledo) and Seville observatories.

Although the SMART detector at Calar Alto Observatory (Almería) couldn't register the event, one of the external surveillance webcams of this observatory was able to record the video. 

Following the preliminary analysis carried out by Professor José María Madiedo (Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía IAA-CSIC), the fireball had an asteroidal origin. A rock detached from an asteroid entered in our atmosphere at a speed of 95.000 km/h in the vertical of the south of Castilla La Mancha (South Spain) and moved northwestward.

The initial altitude of the luminous event was 95 km, while the event finished at an altitude of 40 km.

Below are the video that could be registered with the external surveillance webcam 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.