Observations of a very bright fireball and its likely link with comet C/1919 Q2 Metcalf
J.M. Trigo-Rodriguez; J.M. Madiedo; I:P. Williams; A.J. Castro-Tirado; J. Llorca; S. Vítek and M. Jelínek

Abstract.

A very bright fireball called Béjar (SPMN110708), with a maximum brightness of -18, was observed over much of Spain as well as parts of Portugal and France on 2008 July 11 at 21:17:39 UTC... The heliocentric orbit of the meteoroid determined from the observations had a perihelion essentially at the Earth’s orbit and an eccentricity of 0.775, so that the orbit extends far beyond Jupiter, nearly reaching Saturn’s heliocentric distance and is a typical orbit for a member of the Jupiter family of comets.

Monthly Notices of Royal Astronomical Society (2009) in press

Nota de prensa --- Press release

Images of SPMN110708 taken from Sevilla station (SPMN network) and from Torrelodones (Javier Pérez, photographer) and Ddiagram of eye witness Jaime Izquierdo (UCM) from his roof observatory inside Madrid.