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Rabat – Astronomy institutions in Spain detected the passage of a fireball through the sky of northwestern Morocco on Sunday.
Astronomers said the passage took place at 245,000 kilometers per hour.
Jose Maria, the principal investigator of the Smart Project at the Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia, said that the fireball was recorded in the early hours of September 11 at dawn.
Spanish newspaper EFE reported that the event happened as a result of the entry of a rock into the earth’s atmosphere.
“The high temperature that the rock reached when entering the atmosphere generated a fireball that began at an altitude of about 128 kilometers above the western part of the Oriental region,” the news outlet said.
Morocco witnessed several astrology events throughout the year.
In May 2020, US science organization Meteorological Society declared the landing of two meteorites.
A Moroccan team of researchers at the Hassan II University in Casablanca announced the successful missions of tracking the two meteorites that fell in southern Morocco.
Researchers from GAIA laboratory at the Hassan II University first recorded the two meteorites, named “Wad Lahteyba” and “Al Farciya.”
They were discovered in 2019 in the province of Assa-Zag in the southern region of Guelmim-Oued Noun.
The research to find the meteorite pieces is the result of a partnership between the Casablanca university, Moroccan meteorite hunters, the Moroccan Association of Meteorites, Attarik Foundation for Meteoritics, and the American Institute of Meteoritics at the University of New Mexico in the US.
