A large ball of fire crosses the province of Cádiz at 53,000 km / h

It began at an altitude of 93 kilometers in front of the city of Cádiz It was so bright that it could be seen from different points of the peninsula The fireball left a green trail in its wake A large fireball of asteroidal origin has crossed the sky on Friday afternoon Cadiz province. It is a fragment detached in our atmosphere that has reached an estimated speed of 53,000 km/h. The external cameras of the Calar Alto Observatory, in Almería, have recorded the complete trajectory that the bolide has followed, from its beginning to its explosive end. José María Madiedo of the Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia IAA-CSIC and principal investigator of the SMART Project, has pointed out that the luminous part of the event began at an altitude of 93 km in front of the city of Cádiz, on the Andalusian Atlantic coast. The fireball then moved north to end at an altitude of 18 km over the province of Cádiz. Madiedo explained that “it was so bright that it could be seen from almost the entire Iberian Peninsula.” The fireball left behind what appeared to be a green trail. The last flares produced by the fireball turned night into day. The event has been recorded with the detectors with which the SMART Project operates from the observatories of Calar Alto in Almería, La Hita in Toledo, La Sagra and Sierra Nevada. in Granada, Huelva and Seville. It is not ruled out that this fireball has produced meteorites.