Although fall each year about 500 cars on the Iberian Peninsula, like yesterday’s cases are exceptional. Early in the morning, around 7 am, observers throughout the Mediterranean especially Catalonia but also North Castelló witnesses saw an object streak across the sky leaving behind a trail of pink and white smoke. It was a fireball, a celestial body that disintegrates upon entering the atmosphere and reaches not normally touch the ground.
The gray skies that covered yesterday all day much of the interior of the C . Valenciana hindered observation of the fireball, also called fireball. The Observatory Aras de los Olmos, attached to the University of Valencia, yesterday lamented the presence of clouds over the interior of Valencia which prevented observe the phenomenon. Not so in Catalonia, where dozens of witnesses shared by social networks images of the fireball. According to the Spanish Research Network Fireballs and Meteorites, a list takes up the Valencian astronomer Josep M. Trigo, scientist at the Meteor Group, Small Bodies and Planetary Sciences Institute of Space (CSIC-IEEC) Science, the fireball could also be observed in Andalucía, Aragón, Castilla-La Mancha, Castilla y León, the Madrid and Extremadura.
Relationship RC 2014
remains to determine yesterday whether the phenomenon has something to do with the approach to the Earth of asteroid 2014 RC, which touched yesterday afternoon, in spatial terms, the planet passed within 40,000 kilometers. The asteroid passed closer to Earth came up to 27,000 miles. According to José Valero, president of the Valencian Association of Astronomy, “is soon to know if you have any relationship, but it could come from anywhere: the tail of a comet, asteroid belt …”.
What is clear is that for Valero fireballs like yesterday, relatively common although not as visible, do not pose any risk to people. “They are reduced in size from a grain of sand to a meter, and is virtually impossible to fall on populated areas,” Valero said.
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