Author: Jose Maria Madiedo

This video shows several fireballs recorded on 20-21 October 2016, during the peak of the Orionid meteor shower. These events are produced by fragments (meteoroids) from Comet Halley that hit the Earth’s atmosphere. The...

This fireball was observed over the South of Spain on Oct. 26, at 23:57 UT (1:57 local time on Oct. 27). The event was produced by a sporadic cometary meteoroid that hit the atmosphere at about 94000 km/h. The fireball began at...

On Sept. 29, a few minutes after sunset (at 18:47 UT), a very bright fireball was witnessed over the South of Spain. The preliminary analysis of this sporadic event reveals that it was produced by a rock that hit the atmosphere...

A mag. -10 fireball was recorded over Spain by the cameras operating in the framework of the SMART Project on Sept. 27, at 20:47 UT (22:47 local time). The meteoroid hit the atmosphere at 30.6 km/s and the luminous phase began...

This fireball overflew the Mediterranean Sea on 27 Sep. 2016 at 3:11 UT ( 5:11 local time). The event was produced by a meteoroid from Comet P/2005 T4 (SWAN) that impacted the atmosphere at about 250000 km/h. It started at a...