Two large fireballs were recorded at the Playa Blanca video-detection station between Wednesday night and Thursday morning flying over the island of Lanzarote. According to the Bolides and Meteorites Research Network, they were heading towards Mauritania and Morocco and originated sporadically.
Ramón López, an astronomer collaborating with the Spanish Meteor Network (SPMN), was the one who gave the warning of the sighting of the fireballs. The first one occurred at 20:06 hours, the second one took place at 0:28 hours.
According to the entity specialized in the study of these phenomena, fireballs are shooting stars with greater luminosity, in addition, they also have a longer duration in time compared to the shooting stars themselves, since fireballs can exceed tens of seconds and even reach half an hour in duration. They usually originate from rocks detached from asteroids, comets or even the Moon or Mars, although these last cases are more unlikely.
This is not the first time they have been observed in Spain. Throughout the month of October, several fireballs have been sighted on the Peninsula on numerous occasions.
