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A fireball (meteor) passed Thursday night in the sky of central Spain, at 72,000 kilometers per hour, announced today the Andalusian Institute of Astrophysics, which captured the phenomenon.
The fireball, registered at 11:05 p.m. on Thursday, resulted from the entry of rocky material into the Earth’s atmosphere at a speed of 97,000 kilometers per hour over the western part of the province of Toledo.
Due to this high speed, the sudden friction with the atmosphere caused the rocky material to turn incandescent when it was at an altitude of 92 kilometers, generating a bright fireball that could be observed at a distance of more than 500 kilometers.
The fireball advanced in a northwesterly direction and was extinguished when it was at an altitude of 43 kilometers above the city of Oropesa, after traveling 64 kilometers in the atmosphere.
Its passage was recorded in several astronomical observatories under a project coordinated by the Andalusian Institute of Astrophysics and integrated into the Network of Bolides and Meteors of Southwest Europe, which aims to monitor the sky to record and study the impact on the Earth’s atmosphere of materials rocks of different bodies. Of the solar system.
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