Two nice fireballs on July 25th and 26th separated by only a few hours

On July 25^th at 23h50 UT, and 26^th at 02h38 UT, two fireballs crossed South Spain’s skies.

Both objects were registered by the SMART Project’s detectors operated from Calar Alto (Almería), La Hita (Toledo), Sierra Nevada (Granada), La Sagra (Granada), Huelva and Seville observatories.

And, as it is usual, two of the external cameras operated at Calar Alto Observatory in Almería, could also followed the two events.

Professor José María Madiedo (Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía IAA-CSIC), PI of the SMART Project, have achieved the preliminary analysis. Following his conclusions, the extracted data are the following:

path1 interior1 Fireball on July 25^th:

Type of event: asteriodal
Initial speed: 54.000 km/h
Initial altitude: 77 km
Final altitude: 41 km

Below are the videos from external cameras located at Calar Alto Observatory

path2 interior2 Fireball on July 26^th:

Type of event: cometary
Initial speed: 92.000 km/h
Initial altitude: 98 km
Final altitude: 73 km

Below are the videos from external cameras located at Calar Alto Observatory

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.