Video | An impressive fireball has transformed the night in the south of Spain

The night became a day of a few seconds south of Spainin the early hours of this Saturday. The phenomenon could be registered by a astronomical complex in La Hita, in Toledo.

It was a fragment of the Comet Encke that it had an impact on the earth's atmosphere and that, when it was fragmented, it produced a glow like a fireball. According to the astronomical complex of La Hita Spain, the object traveled at a speed of about 110,000 kilometers per hour.

This is not as strange as it sounds

Consulted by the newspaper The country, the teacher of University of Huelva, which operates in the astronomical complex of La Hita, José María Madiedo He said that this had happened about 122 kilometers above the Mediterranean Sea. The phenomenon could also be recorded by the detectors of the astronomical observatories of La Sagra (Granada), Sierra Nevada (Granada) and Seville.

The fireball continued its way northwest and was extinguished about 63 kilometers above White Town, off Almeria.

During the months of October and November, fragments of the Encke comet come off and carry the Earth and produce during this period the rains of stars known as Tauridae.