It appears that a brilliant fireball spotted by many people in Portugal and Spain on May 18, 2024 around 22:46 UTC, was a small piece of a comet (fragment).

The European Space Agency (ESA) estimates that it flew over Spain and Portugal travelling at ~45 km/s before burning up over the Atlantic Ocean at an altitude of ~60 km. The likelihood of any meteorites being found is very low.

Video Credit: milarefacho
Source: The European Space Agency



by Busy_Yesterday9455

7 Comments

  1. Saved this video to my favourites at the day it showed up. Amazig level of luck and coincidence.

  2. CosmicEggEarth on

    With the number of catastrophic impacts over the millennia which humans have existed on this planet, damn, I wander how many times we’ve had this situation before but no camera was watching.