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A fireball "brighter than the full moon" flew over southern Spain Friday night to Saturday, with a brightness "so unusually large" that night "it has become a day a moment", informed the Astrohita Foundation, which observed the event of the La Hita Astronomical Complex in Toledo.
According to Astrohita, the phenomenon was caused by a fragment of the comet Encke nearly one meter in diameter that would have affected the atmosphere. at around 110,000 kilometers at the hour. The impact occurred at 23:46 (GMT) on November 2 at about 122 kilometers above the Mediterranean Sea, off the coast of Almeria. The fireball then headed north-west to disappear about 64 kilometers above the Almeria province.
The phenomenon, recorded by the detectors of the SMART project (University of Huelva) in the observatories of La Hita, Sierra Nevada (Granada), La Sagra (Granada) and Seville, was analyzed by Professor José María Madiedo.
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