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During the first part of the night of July 26th, at 20h59 UT, a bright fireball crossed the skies of Zamora province (North West Spain)
This object was registered with the detectors operated within the SMART Project at the observatories of Calar Alto (Almería), La Hita (Toledo), Sierra Nevada (Granada), La Sagra (Granada), Sant Celoni y Marçà (Tarragona), Huelva and Seville.
One of the external cameras of Calar Alto Observatory in Almería also recorded this nice fireball.
Professor José María Madiedo (Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía IAA-CSIC) made the preliminary analysis with next conclusions:
- Type of event: cometary
- Initial speed: 92.000 km/h
- Initial altitude: 105 km
- Final altitude: 73 km
Below is the video of the fireball, captured with the external camera operated at Calar Alto Observatory in Almería, more than 600 km south of where it took place.
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.