A possible meteorite and its luminous trail were spotted at 07:00 hours on Sunday by citizens of Barcelona and Tarragona, which have Twitter account, with photographs that you can see smoke pink and white.
The State Meteorological Agency (AEMET) in Catalonia also reported the possible meteor that illuminated the sky of Barcelona with a flash to 06:55 pm today, according to the staff on duty found this entity.
Meanwhile, the Meteorite Research Network updated on its website the list of such including the one this morning has been conducted by the phenomena Dr. Josep M. Trigo, scientist at the Meteor Group, Small Bodies and Planetary Sciences Institute of Space (CSIC-IEEC) Science.
In that listing only the brightest and representative cases are included, since in the 25 operating stations of that network are detected each year about 500 racers.
The range of possible meteor observation has been extended to other areas such as Andalusia, Aragón, Castilla-La Mancha, Castilla and Leon, Madrid, Valencia and Extremadura Community, as Red said.
In Catalonia, the testimonies come from Barcelona’s Twitter Olesa populations of Montserrat, Berga, Ullastrell and Badalona and Tarragona and Barcelona.
A bolide or fireball is the name given to the lower magnitude -4 luminous phenomenon produced when a particle or interplanetary origin enters the Earth’s atmosphere at speeds between 11 and 73 kilometers per second .
These particles are detached rocks asteroid, comet or even rocks from the Moon or Mars, although this is rare, according to the Research Network Fireballs and Meteorites.
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