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Fireball lights up Madrid’s night sky – EL PAÍS in English
The meteor, which entered the atmosphere at 126,000 km/h, was so bright it could be seen 600 kilometers away
A rock from an asteroid hit the Earths atmosphere early Thursday morning at about 126,000 km/h, creating a large fireball over Madrid that could be seen across Spain. This is not an unusual event: besides space objects like this one, which disintegrate before reaching the ground, every year around 17,000 meteorites fall to Earth, according to the Madrid Planetarium.
The phenomenon, which took place at around 3.56am local time, was captured and recorded by the Southwestern Europe Meteor Network (SWEMN)…
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