An impressive ball of fire has flown over the provinces of Malaga, Cádiz and Seville in the early morning from Saturday to Sunday at 1:18 a.m. a light so bright that it could be seen in a radius of 750 kilometers around, that is to say, throughout the country and North Africa, with images of testimonies coming even from Tarragona.
José María Madiedo, researcher at the Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia (IAA-CSIC), has welcomed the spectacular of this event and for those who could see it at night. “If what the cameras picked up was already striking, seeing it live had to be shocking,” he said.
Madiedo has explained that this fireball is something that occurs when a rock enters the Earth’s atmosphere at high speed, which causes it to touch the air to become very hot and become incandescent until it disintegrates. That incandescence is what allows it to be visible beyond the place where it flies.
This in particular, the first great ball of fire of the year, It came detached from a comet at a speed of 150,000 kilometers per hour, entered the atmosphere in the northwestern part of the province of Malaga and disintegrated near Marchena (Seville).
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