Registration : All-sky camera of Actuel-Teruel, Falset (Joan A. Català) and Prades-Tarragona (Aleix Roig). Video detection stations of Barx-La Visteta (Jordi Donet), Bartolo and Benicàssim (Vicent Ibàñez), Blesa-Teruel (Miguel Aznar), Cehegín-Murcia (Sensi Pastor and José A. de los Reyes), Esparreguera (Jordi Gil) , Estepa-Sevilla (Antonio J. Robles), Fanzara (Germán Edo), Folgueroles (Pep Pujols-AAO/Josep M. Trigo-CSIC-IEEC), Lleida (Xavier Turmo), Madrid-M30 (Dr. Jaime Izquierdo), Olocau (Álex Gómez and Juan Gómez), Sant Celoni (David Molner), Sant Fost de Campsentelles (Lina Aguasca), Sant Mateu (Cèsar Guasch), Sucaina (V. Ibàñez) and Vilavella (V. Ibàñez).
Absolute magnitude : -15±2
Origin : Sporadic
Observation range : Andalusia, Aragon, Castilla-La Mancha, Castilla y León, Community of Madrid, Comunitat Valenciana, Balearic Islands, La Rioja, Navarra and Euskadi.
(Translated by Google)
Comment: Other videos:
The following selfie-video from Avéro in Portugal was captured by Mila Vladimirovna, @milarefacho
Some of the above and other videos can be found here: International Meteor Society
Huge fireball over Spain and Portugal on May 18!
The fireball has entered the CNEOS list:
Peak Brightness Date/Time (UT) 2024-05-18 22:46:50
Latitude(deg. 41.0N
Longitude(deg.) 8.8W
Altitude(km) 74.3
Velocity(km/s 40.4
Velocity Components(km/s) vx -26.5, vy -24.1, vz 18.7
Total Radiated Energy(J) 3.7e10
Calculated Total Impact Energy(kt) 0.13
This year six others have entered the list, curiously, of very similar size. There now is one at 0.15, four at 0.13, one at 0.11 and on at 0.098. The variation last year was between 0.076 and 7.2. kt! The Chelyabinsk meteor has been estimated to between 400 and 500 kt of TNT.
The American Meteor Society has in the 2024 list recorded it as Event 2481-2024:
Since the altitude of the visible meteor has been given the range of 122 km, initially, and 54 km at the end, we can insert these figures and find out how far out that is visible. For an observer at sea level, the calculator gives values between 1252 km and 831 km.
To be able to view the meteor from Paris would be a "tall order" given that the atmosphere is not clear, but if the viewing happened from one of the skyrises. several of which are around 200 meters this could add about 50 km to the first estimate of 1252 km. Alternatively, a different calculator shows that from an altitude of 122 km, the horizon to sea level is 1328 km away, and if you are viewing from an altitude of 200 meter, it would be 1382 km.
Meteors are interesting objects, see more in Cometary Encounters: Flash-Frozen Mammoths, Mars-Earth Discharge, Comet Venus and the 3,600-Year Cometary Cycle, and Earth Changes and the Human-Cosmic Connection (The Secret History of the World Book 3) by Pierre Lescaudron. The second is available in German, while both are translated into French, and Russian.