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A fireball with a nice last fulguration could be observed last October 6th at 03h36 UT.
This object was registered with the SMART Project detectors operated at Calar Alto (Almería), La Hita (Toledo), Sierra Nevada (Granada), La Sagra (Granada), Huelva and Seville observatories.
Two of the external cameras located at Calar Alto Observatory in Almería also recorded this event.
The conclusions Professor José María Madiedo (Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía IAA-CSIC), PI of the SMART Project gathered from the preliminary analysis are the next:
- Type of event: cometary
- Initial speed: 90.000 km/h
- Initial altitude: 105 km
- Final altitude: 70 km
Below are the two videos registered with 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.