Part of a passing asteroid entered the Earth’s atmosphere as a burning meteoroid, crossing the Granada sky early yesterday morning.

The fireball, which was hurtling along at a speed of 85,000 kph, was picked up by the Smart detector telescopes in Almería, Toledo, Huelva, Sevilla and the one on Sierra Nevada. The photo was captured by the one at the Observatorio de Calar Alto (Almería).

It entered the atmosphere at a height of 90 kilometres, more or less over the Málaga/Granada provincial border, moving north east and crossing the whole of our province before finally burning out at a height of 25 kilometres over the south of the province of Jaén.

The South-Western Europe Meteor Network (SWEMN) is headed by astrophysicist, José María Madiedo, at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA-CSIC). This project analyses meteoroids, meteors and meteorites both from an astrophysical point of view and from a chemical point of view in order to study the origin, orbit and behaviour in the Earth’s atmosphere of these materials.

(News/Noticias: Granada, Andalucia)