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A fireball from a comet crossed the sky between the northern coast of Morocco and southern Andalusia (Spain) on Wednesday evening, after entering the atmosphere around 10:10 pm at a speed of 65,000 kilometers per hour.
According to Spanish news agency EFE, this phenomenon has been seen by many people in Andalusia, as explained by Spanish astrophysicist José María Madiedo who is part of the SMART project.
The rock that caused this phenomenon was from a comet, and its collision with the atmosphere at this tremendous speed caused it to become incandescent, thus generating a fireball that began at an altitude of about 106 kilometers above northern Morocco, close to the town of Al Hoceima.
From there, the fireball advanced in a northwesterly direction, and extinguished at an altitude of 65 kilometers above the Mediterranean, about 30 kilometers from the Moroccan coast, after traveling a total distance of about 50 kilometers.
Researchers from SMART project, in the astronomical observatories of Calar Alto (Almería), Sierra Nevada (Granada) and Seville, noticed the fireball.
