This mag. -8 fireball event was recorded over Andalusia on 19 July 2018 at 5:28 local time (3:28 universal time). The event was produced by a meteoroid from Comet 169P/NEAT that hit the atmosphere at about 80000 km/h. The alpha-Capricornid fireball began at an altitude of around 95 km over the province of Granada, and ended at a height of about 43 km over the province of Almería. It was recorded from the meteor-observing stations operating in the framework of the SMART Project (University of Huelva) from the astronomical observatories of Calar Alto (Almería), La Sagra (Granada), La Hita (Toledo), Huelva and Sevilla.
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Jose Maria Madiedo
PhD in Astrophysics and PhD in Chemistry. I currently work as Associated Doctor at the Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia (IAA-CSIC). I am the coordinator of the Southwestern Europe Meteor Network (SWEMN), which operates in Spain and neighbouring areas (www.swemn.org). I am running the SMART Project (Spectroscopy of Meteoroids in the Atmosphere by means of Robotic Technologies). In the framework of this survey I currently operate over 80 high-sensitivity video cameras and spectrographs from 10 different observatories, together with three systems for the detection of radio meteors. I also conduct the MIDAS Project (Moon Impacts Detection and Analysis System) together with the Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia (IAA), to detect and analyze impact flashes produced by meteoroids that hit the lunar surface.
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