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Fireball lights up sky over Spain and North Africa Associated Press January 29, 2003 MADRID, Spain - A meteor was likely the cause of a brilliant fireball that streaked across skies of southern Spain and North Africa this week, astronomers said. The flash Monday night was visible in much of Spain's Andalusia region and as far away as La Mancha, hundreds of kilometers to the north, as it arced over Algeria, said Jose Juan Lopez Moreno, a researcher at the Astrophysics Institute of Andalusia. "It was tremendously bright, much brighter than the moon," Lopez Moreno said. "I have never seen anything like it." He said the ball as mostly white with red and green fringes, and lasted just a couple seconds. A round-the-clock computerized camera run by the European Space Agency caught the flash on film. Fireballs as intense as the one on Monday are rare, said Jose Maria Trigo, an astrophysicist working with the European Space Agency. He said the chunk could have weighed several hundred kilograms when it entered the earth's atmosphere. ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
