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Two firewalls were registered with the SMART Project’s detector operated at Calar Alto (Almería), La Hita (Toledo), Sierra Nevada (Granada), La Sagra (Granada), Huelva and Seville observatories.
The first one took place at 20h28 UT, while the second one a few minutes after, and much brighter, at 20h33 UT.
Two of the external cameras operated at Calar Alto Observatory in Almería, could also record both events.
The preliminary analysis carried out by Professor José María Madiedo (Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía IAA-CSIC), PI of the SMART Project, concludes the next:
First fireball at 20h28 UT
- Type of event: cometary
- Initial speed: 206.000 km/h
- Initial altitude: 125 km
- Final altitude: 87 km
Second fireball at 20h33 UT
- Type of event: cometary
- Initial speed: 80.000 km/h
- Initial altitude: 82 km
- Final altitude: 32 km
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.