A synthetic car flies over eastern Spain and falls into the Mediterranean: CSIC rules out that it was a missile

And The synthetic bolet flew up It was lost in the sea south of the community of Valencia, east of the peninsula on Friday night, the CSIC's Institute of Space Sciences Fireball and Meteor Research Network (SPMN) reported this Saturday.

Although it was initially thought to be a ballistic missile, CSIC's SPMN indicated that the object found last night in the eastern part of the Iberian Peninsula was produced by a missile. A synthetic object re-enters Earth's orbit.

Sec RejectSo, that's the option A missile After a study by a team of researchers from ICE-CSIC Detailed pictures and measurements of the car. “Preliminary data obtained so far determine that the fireball was formed by the re-entry of artificial material, such as remnants of satellites or space rockets, into Earth's orbit,” pointed out Joseph Maria Trigo, an astrophysicist at ICE and the coordinator. SPMN, in a statement.

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“Re-entries are frequent” The analyst pointed out. “Precise measurements of the object's velocity during atmospheric stripping will allow us to clarify its specific nature, in particular, whether it is a highly unusual skimming car,” Trigo said.

A car named SPMN290324ART by the above company, It flew over Spanish space at 11:59 p.m. before disappearing into the Mediterranean Sea. and recorded and photographed by numerous astronomy enthusiasts. According to the research network, the object's trajectory suggests it came from France and flew over Girona and Barcelona before ending its journey south of the Valencian Community to enter the Balearic Sea.

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The missile can be monitored from Aragon, Catalonia, Community of Madrid, Community of Valencia, Euskadi, La Rioja and Navarra. In particular, it has been recorded in video detection stations such as Pic Bartolo and Benicàssim (Vicent Ibàñez), Blesa-Teruel (Miguel Aznar), Breda (David Molner), Corbera de Llobregat (Carlos Alcaraz), Esparreguera (Jordi Gles), etc. (Pep Pujols/AAO and Josep M. Trigo/CSIC-IEEC), Sant Celoni (David Molner), Sant Fost de Campsentelles (Lina Aguasca) and Sant Mateu (Cèsar Guasch), CSIC indicated on its website.