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T1 A bright fireball witnessed on august, 17, 2011 over the Iberian Peninsula
A1 Docobo, José A.
A1 Madiedo Gil, José María
A1 Trigo Rodríguez, Josep María
AB The detailed study of bright fireballevents is one of the aims of the SPanish Meteor Net-work (SPMN), as these allowus to collect very valu-able information on the origin of the relatively raremeteorite-dropping bolides. In this context, a verybright fireball (at least mag. -12) was observed overthe Iberian Peninsula during the evening twilight ofAugust 17, 2011. However, unfavourable weatherconditions in most of the regions where our meteorobserving stations were working did not allow us torecord any video or image of this fireball. Fortunately,because of excellent weather over Galicia and otherareas in northwest Spain, the observation of this eventwas very favourable for numerous visual witnessesthat could account for it. These were interviewed by ateam belonging to theRamón María Aller Astronomi-cal Observatory(OARMA). This made possible a reli-able reconstruction of the fireball trajectory in a sys-tematic way as made in previous events [see e.g. 3].We present here the preliminary analysis of this event.The data provided by the eyewitnesses reveal that, infact, this could have been a meteorite-dropping fire-ball, although the meteorite would have landed on theAtlantic Ocean
YR 2012
FD 2012
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10272/9023
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10272/9023
LA eng
NO Docobo, J.A., Madiedo Gil, J.M., Trigo Rodríguez, J.M.: "A bright fireball witnessed on august, 17, 2011 over the Iberian Peninsula". En: 43rd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference ( (The Woolands, Texas, march 19-23, 2012)
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva
RD 16 jul 2026