[meteorite-list] New fall in Spain

From: Pekka Savolainen <pekka.savolainen_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:31:58 2004
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Hundreds of people sighted "fire balls" crossing skies of Spain

MADRID. ABC


The citizens of Galicia, Leon, Palencia, Madrid, Teruel and Castellón
were witnesses of the passage of an incandescent ball that the experts
create a meteorite

Of the west to a this and in a matter of minutes "great fire ball", as
many described it, he crossed yesterday in the evening skies of the
Peninsula. And although surely that many of people that sighted it
thought at first that it could be the Star of East - more than nothing
by the dates that we lived -, most probable is than outside a meteorite,
that first flew over Galicia and later it went to Leon, Palencia, Teruel
and Castellón.

The first sightings took place to the 17,47 hours in Santiago de
Compostela. The phenomenon left agape all the spectators who attended in
the stage San Lazaro the soccer match between the Compostela and San
Sebastián of the Kings. Indeed, between the public the person in charge
of the Astronomical observatory was "Ramon Maria Aller", of the
University of Santiago, Jose Docobo Angel, who assured to ABC that by
the luminosity, the height to which crossed the sky (between one and 50
kilometers) and his inclination of 30-35 degrees, the cosmic stone could
weigh between 10 and 100 tons. In his opinion, one would be "a bolide
that in its trajectory through the atmosphere fragmented in multiple
pieces and caused a final deflagration, that in some places, could
accompany itself by a strong detonation".

This type of events, according to Docobo, cannot be preveer because the
cosmic stones, although are great, do not appear in the telescopes when
they only are outside the atmosphere but when they penetrate it. Docobo
remembered that this phenomenon is more usual than takes place at night
and in Galicia.

The father of Jose Manuel Docobo, Manuel, also presents/displays in the
sport encounter, said that he saw a phenomenon similar to "a head of
ignited match which he followed a species of tail. We saw it the height
of near mounts and hardly 2 seconds, he disappeared right away. It was a
simple impression ".

For the director of the Astronomical observatory of Majorca, Salvador
Sanchez, who received diverse calls of eyewitnesses, "has been a" slow
phenomenon ", with a wake whose thickness was equivalent to half of the
Full Moon". Being based on the gathered testimonies, that spoke of a
"off-white light", Salvador Sanchez points the possibility that he was
not a meteorite, but of "space sweepings", that is to say, the rest of a
satellite falling to the Earth. Sanchez justifies this opinion saying
that "if she had been a rock, their friction with the atmosphere would
have disturbed their chemical elements, giving rise to green, blue or
yellow colors, never white". Also he affirms that the size of the
meteorite would be below the 25 meters, that are the minimum rank of
pick up so that this class of objects can be detected by terrestrial
telescopes.

Roar to its passage in Leon

In his periplo to the wide thing of the Iberian Peninsula, the fire ball
followed course skies of Leon and Palencia. Almost the hundred of
neighbors that resides in the locality of Renedo de Valderaduey,
bordering between both provinces, not only could contemplate the
phenomenon in the horizon, but that "underwent" the roar that caused to
its step. Male Elena, runs both of one of bars of the municipality,
declared to ABC that all the neighbors left alarmed their houses, when
"resounding all crystals and plates" after a comparable outbreak "to the
blast of explosives in a quarry". "It was, really, a atronador sound
that scared us to all", it said.

The Civil Guard of Almanza personó in the municipality before the calls
of the neighbors but, although all located the possible fall of the
supposed meteorite in a near mount, the Meritorious one "did not find
anything". In spite of everything, the leonine commands of Almanza,
Cistierna, Sahagún, the Magdalena and Boñar will today resume the search
of the possible rest of a meteorite and that could have caused mount
fire CONATO located in the limit between Leon and Palencia.

The neighbors of localities of this last province, like Saldaña, Velilla
and the own palentina capital, agree in indicating that they had sighted
a great fire ball, followed of much smoke and next a roar similar to the
one of an explosion. In I keep, for example, many witnesses assured to
have seen an immense fire ball of yellowish color that disappeared after
a mountain. "I listened to a terrible roar. I thought that it was an
atomic pump or an earthquake. In the street people were shown to the
window and watched the sky. The explosion has lasted seconds ", assured
a neighbor the locality that explained that when going out" people did
not seem scared because the sound had disappeared and nothing in the sky
was seen ".

And the fire ball followed course Madrid, where the phenomenon had an
interview less to six the ten of afternoon, hour as of which the service
of emergencies 112 received a twenty of calls coming from neighbors of
populations near the mountain range of Guadarrama, which they alerted
that a great incandescent object hurried at full speed on the riscos of
the Pedriza and the Ball of the World. Nevertheless, sources of the
service of emergency 112 have assured to this newspaper that after
verifying those zones was not any rest of collision.

Incandescent ball

The flight continued towards Teruel, where the neighbors of two
municipalities, Santa Eulalia of the Field and the Puebla of Valverde,
observed "to move an incandescent ball by the sky", but members of the
Civil Guard which they took care of the calls of the neighbors confirmed
that they had not found anything there where said that it could have landed.

The firemen of Castellón also mobilized themselves after a call received
in afternoon from yesterday from the Port of Burriana that alerted of a
possible fall of a small plane or a "fire ball". The possible fall of an
object from the sky also alerted to the Local Police and the Civil Guard
of the zone, that tried to locate the object in the near localities. The
Firemen of Nules confirmed that they had made diverse exits by the calls
of neighbors, but did not find no fire sign.

On the other hand, the technicians of the main directorate of Interior
of the Valencian Generalitat aim at that he could be fleeting stars.
However, from the Weather station of Valencia they indicated that they
lack instruments to detect this type of phenomena.

Sources of Spanish Airports and Navegacio'n Ae'rea (AENA) and the Iberia
company said, to last hour of yesterday late, not to have certainty of
which some problem in the air operations had taken place.

-- 
Pekka Savolainen
Jokiharjuntie 4
FIN-71330 Rasala
FINLAND
+ 358 400 818 912
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<font class="titular16b">Hundreds of people sighted "fire balls" crossing 
skies of Spain</font><br>
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MADRID. ABC<br>
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The citizens of Galicia, Leon, Palencia, Madrid, Teruel and Castell&oacute;n were
witnesses of the passage of an incandescent ball that the experts create
a meteorite<br>
<br>
Of the west to a this and in a matter of minutes "great fire ball", as many
described it, he crossed yesterday in the evening skies of the Peninsula.
And although surely that many of people that sighted it thought at first
that it could be the Star of East - more than nothing by the dates that we
lived -, most probable is than outside a meteorite, that first flew over
Galicia and later it went to Leon, Palencia, Teruel and Castell&oacute;n.<br>
<br>
The first sightings took place to the 17,47 hours in Santiago de Compostela.
The phenomenon left agape all the spectators who attended in the stage San
Lazaro the soccer match between the Compostela and San Sebasti&aacute;n of the Kings.
Indeed, between the public the person in charge of the Astronomical observatory
was "Ramon Maria Aller", of the University of Santiago, Jose Docobo Angel,
who assured to ABC that by the luminosity, the height to which crossed the
sky (between one and 50 kilometers) and his inclination of 30-35 degrees,
the cosmic stone could weigh between 10 and 100 tons. In his opinion, one
would be "a bolide that in its trajectory through the atmosphere fragmented
in multiple pieces and caused a final deflagration, that in some places,
could accompany itself by a strong detonation".<br>
<br>
This type of events, according to Docobo, cannot be preveer because the cosmic
stones, although are great, do not appear in the telescopes when they only
are outside the atmosphere but when they penetrate it. Docobo remembered
that this phenomenon is more usual than takes place at night and in Galicia.<br>
<br>
The father of Jose Manuel Docobo, Manuel, also presents/displays in the sport
encounter, said that he saw a phenomenon similar to "a head of ignited match
which he followed a species of tail. We saw it the height of near mounts
and hardly 2 seconds, he disappeared right away. It was a simple impression
".<br>
<br>
For the director of the Astronomical observatory of Majorca, Salvador Sanchez,
who received diverse calls of eyewitnesses, "has been a" slow phenomenon
", with a wake whose thickness was equivalent to half of the Full Moon".
Being based on the gathered testimonies, that spoke of a "off-white light",
Salvador Sanchez points the possibility that he was not a meteorite, but
of "space sweepings", that is to say, the rest of a satellite falling to
the Earth. Sanchez justifies this opinion saying that "if she had been a
rock, their friction with the atmosphere would have disturbed their chemical
elements, giving rise to green, blue or yellow colors, never white". Also
he affirms that the size of the meteorite would be below the 25 meters, that
are the minimum rank of pick up so that this class of objects can be detected
by terrestrial telescopes.<br>
<br>
Roar to its passage in Leon<br>
<br>
In his periplo to the wide thing of the Iberian Peninsula, the fire ball
followed course skies of Leon and Palencia. Almost the hundred of neighbors
that resides in the locality of Renedo de Valderaduey, bordering between
both provinces, not only could contemplate the phenomenon in the horizon,
but that "underwent" the roar that caused to its step. Male Elena, runs both
of one of bars of the municipality, declared to ABC that all the neighbors
left alarmed their houses, when "resounding all crystals and plates" after
a comparable outbreak "to the blast of explosives in a quarry". "It was,
really, a atronador sound that scared us to all", it said.<br>
<br>
The Civil Guard of Almanza person&oacute; in the municipality before the calls of
the neighbors but, although all located the possible fall of the supposed
meteorite in a near mount, the Meritorious one "did not find anything". In
spite of everything, the leonine commands of Almanza, Cistierna, Sahag&uacute;n,
the Magdalena and Bo&ntilde;ar will today resume the search of the possible rest
of a meteorite and that could have caused mount fire CONATO located in the
limit between Leon and Palencia.<br>
<br>
The neighbors of localities of this last province, like Salda&ntilde;a, Velilla
and the own palentina capital, agree in indicating that they had sighted
a great fire ball, followed of much smoke and next a roar similar to the
one of an explosion. In I keep, for example, many witnesses assured to have
seen an immense fire ball of yellowish color that disappeared after a mountain.
"I listened to a terrible roar. I thought that it was an atomic pump or an
earthquake. In the street people were shown to the window and watched the
sky. The explosion has lasted seconds ", assured a neighbor the locality
that explained that when going out" people did not seem scared because the
sound had disappeared and nothing in the sky was seen ".<br>
<br>
And the fire ball followed course Madrid, where the phenomenon had an interview
less to six the ten of afternoon, hour as of which the service of emergencies
112 received a twenty of calls coming from neighbors of populations near
the mountain range of Guadarrama, which they alerted that a great incandescent
object hurried at full speed on the riscos of the Pedriza and the Ball of
the World. Nevertheless, sources of the service of emergency 112 have assured
to this newspaper that after verifying those zones was not any rest of collision.<br>
<br>
Incandescent ball<br>
<br>
The flight continued towards Teruel, where the neighbors of two municipalities,
Santa Eulalia of the Field and the Puebla of Valverde, observed "to move
an incandescent ball by the sky", but members of the Civil Guard which they
took care of the calls of the neighbors confirmed that they had not found
anything there where said that it could have landed.<br>
<br>
The firemen of Castell&oacute;n also mobilized themselves after a call received
in afternoon from yesterday from the Port of Burriana that alerted of a possible
fall of a small plane or a "fire ball". The possible fall of an object from
the sky also alerted to the Local Police and the Civil Guard of the zone,
that tried to locate the object in the near localities. The Firemen of Nules
confirmed that they had made diverse exits by the calls of neighbors, but
did not find no fire sign.<br>
<br>
On the other hand, the technicians of the main directorate of Interior of
the Valencian Generalitat aim at that he could be fleeting stars. However,
from the Weather station of Valencia they indicated that they lack instruments
to detect this type of phenomena.<br>
<br>
Sources of Spanish Airports and Navegacio'n Ae'rea (AENA) and the Iberia
company said, to last hour of yesterday late, not to have certainty of which
some problem in the air operations had taken place.<br>
<br>
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