Night skies in southern Portugal and Spain were lit up for just a second at around 2.49am on Monday due to a meteor which exploded in the atmosphere at an altitude of around 60kms.
Described as a “fireball” by those who saw it, it is technically referred to as a bolide.
It was generated by a rock from a comet that hit the atmosphere at about 227,000 km/h, according to Jose Madiedo from the Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia (IAA-CSIC).
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