{"id":792560,"date":"2025-01-11T09:32:04","date_gmt":"2025-01-11T14:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=792560"},"modified":"2025-01-11T09:32:04","modified_gmt":"2025-01-11T14:32:04","slug":"very-bright-fireball-observed-over-spain-meteorites-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=792560","title":{"rendered":"Very bright fireball observed over Spain, meteorites expected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>A very bright fireball was observed over the skies of Spain outshining the Moon in the night sky on Thursday,  January 9, 2025. The preliminary analysis of this event shows a small part of the meteoroid survived and reached the ground as a meteorite.<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"perfmatters-lazy-youtube\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/16AE5gUCEKE\" data-id=\"16AE5gUCEKE\" data-query=\"feature=oembed\" onclick=\"perfmattersLazyLoadYouTube(this);\">\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Meteorite fall over northern Spain (Jan 9) \/\/ Ca\u00edda de meteorito en el norte de Espa\u00f1a (9 de enero)\" width=\"1110\" height=\"833\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/16AE5gUCEKE?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><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>A bright fireball was observed streaking across the skies of Spain at approximately 22:08 LT (21:08 UTC) on Thursday, January 9. It burned up over the southeastern region of Le\u00f3n.<\/p>\n<p>The event was visible across the Iberian Peninsula and marked the first recorded bolide event in Spain for 2025, according to Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Madiedo, an astrophysicist at the Instituto de Astrof\u00edsica de Andaluc\u00eda (IAA-CSIC).<\/p>\n<p>The fireball was first sighted approximately 86 km (53 miles) above Palencia, traveling at about 67 000 km\/h (41 630 mph). It was then observed across regions as far as 600 km (373 miles) away.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"\/>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"\/>\n<p>Madiedo, who analyzed the event, reported that the fireball\u2019s atmospheric flight spanned a total of 67 km (42 miles) before burning out at an altitude of 23 km (14 miles) above the village of Joara, in the Sahag\u00fan municipality of Le\u00f3n. <\/p>\n<p>The preliminary analysis of this event shows that the rock was not fully destroyed and a small part of the meteoroid survived and reached the ground as a meteorite.<\/p>\n<p>The fireball was recorded as part of the SMART project, operated by the Southwestern Europe Meteor Network (SWEMN). Observations were made from meteor-observing stations in La Hita (Toledo), Calar Alto, Sierra Nevada, La Sagra (Granada), Olocau (Valencia), and Mar\u00e7\u00e0 (Tarragona).<\/p>\n<p>References:<\/p>\n<p><sup>1<\/sup> A meteor brighter than the full Moon crosses the sky of Palencia and is visible throughout Spain \u2013 COPE \u2013 January 10, 2024<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-theme-palette-6-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-d43e5512da159742e677e9af8503f51c\"><em>Featured image: Fireball observed over Spain on January 9, 2025. 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