A 2010 superbolide produced by a meteoroid from a short period comet

Abstract

In 2009 our team established a me- teor observing station in the Sierra Nevada Astronomi- cal Observatory (Granada, Spain), with the aim to monitor meteor and fireball activity over the south of the Iberian Peninsula and to develop a continuous me- teor spectroscopy campaign in the framework of the SPanish Meteor Network (SPMN). In this work, we analyze a very bri ght fireball that reached its maximum brightness next to the zenith of this observatory in 2010. In fact, with an absolute magnitude of about - 18, this event was classified as a superbolide