{"id":782889,"date":"2024-05-24T18:54:18","date_gmt":"2024-05-24T23:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=782889"},"modified":"2024-05-24T18:54:18","modified_gmt":"2024-05-24T23:54:18","slug":"stunning-meteor-captured-by-esas-fireball-camera-in-caceres-spain-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=782889","title":{"rendered":"Stunning meteor captured by ESA&#8217;s fireball camera in C\u00e1ceres, Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"modal__tab-content--details\">\n<div class=\"modal__tab-description\">\n<p>ESA&#8217;s fireball camera in C\u00e1ceres, Spain, captured this stunning meteor during the night of 18\u201419 May 2024 (00:46 CEST 19 May \/ 22:46 UTC 18 May).<\/p>\n<p>The camera is operated by ESA\u2019s Planetary Defence Office and is part of the AllSky7 fireball network.<\/p>\n<p>ESA\u2019s planetary defenders began investigating the impact shortly after it was first reported. Their analysis of the object\u2019s trajectory has revealed that it is likely to have been a small piece of a comet.<\/p>\n<p>They estimate that it flew over Spain and Portugal travelling at roughly 45 km\/s (162 000 km\/h) before burning up over the Atlantic Ocean at an altitude of approximately 60 km.<\/p>\n<p>Using data on the amount of energy released during the impact, they estimate that the object was roughly 1 m in size and had a mass of 500\u20141000 kg.<\/p>\n<p>The likelihood of any meteorites from this even being discovered is very low.<\/p>\n<p>The object was not detected before impact. This is likely because it approached Earth from a region of the sky that is particularly crowded with stars of the Milky Way galaxy.<\/p>\n<p>Find out more about ESA\u2019s Planetary Defence activities<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t<label style=\"display: block; font-size: 0.9em; color: #8197A6; margin: 3rem 0 -1rem 0;\">Embed code<\/label><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<textarea rows=\"4\" cols=\"60\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Stunning meteor captured by ESA&#039;s fireball camera in C\u00e1ceres, Spain\" width=\"1110\" height=\"624\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3whl1V3msWY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/textarea><\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Videos\/2024\/05\/Stunning_meteor_captured_by_ESA_s_fireball_camera_in_Caceres_Spain?rand=772187\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESA&#8217;s fireball camera in C\u00e1ceres, Spain, captured this stunning meteor during the night of 18\u201419 May 2024 (00:46 CEST 19 May \/ 22:46 UTC 18 May). The camera is operated&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":782579,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-782889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=782889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/782579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=782889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=782889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=782889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}