Rabat – Astronomers from the Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia (IAA-CSIC) witnessed a dazzling passing of a fireball through northern Morocco on Sunday night.
Jose Maria Madiedo, Investigator of the Smart project from the institute, explained that the tee fireball was recorded on January 30 at 3:16 a.m.
“Its brightness was similar to that of the full moon so it could be seen from Andalusia, in southern Spain,” he said.
Quoting the expert, Spanish news agency EFE said the rock that caused the event entered the earth’s atmosphere at a speed of 255,000 kilometers per hour.
“The rocks that intersect with the earth’s orbit are called meteoroids,” EFE recalled, noting that the rock’s enormous speed caused it to become incandescent, generating a fireball that began at an altitude of 146 kilometers over eastern Morocco.
Astronomers have witnessed several similar incidents over Morocco’s skies in recent months.
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In September 2021, a number of astronomy institutions also detected the passage of a fireball through the sky of northwestern Morocco.
The high temperature that the rock reached when entering the atmosphere generated a fireball that began at an altitude of about 128 kilometers above the western part of the Oriental region
In May 2020, the American Meteorological Society declared the landing of two meteorites in Morocco.
A Moroccan team of researchers at the Hassan II University in Casablanca announced the successful missions of tracking the two meteorites that fell in southern Morocco.
