Arroyomolinos de León is a town and municipality located in the province of
Huelva
Huelva (, ) is a city in southwestern Spain, the capital of the province of Huelva in the autonomous community of Andalusia. It is between two short rias though has an outlying spur including nature reserve on the Gulf of Cádiz coast. The rias ...
, Spain. According to the 2010
census
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, the city has a population of 1,046 inhabitants (533 men and 513 women).
Demographics
Significant events
As a result of an explosion equivalent to 190 kilotonnes of TNT that occurred over the town on December 8, 1932. Arroyomolinos de León made it into the
List of meteor air bursts
A meteor air burst is a type of air burst in which a meteor explodes after entering a planetary body's atmosphere. This fate leads them to be called fireballs or bolides, with the brightest air bursts known as superbolides. Such meteoroids wer ...
. A meteoroid, connected to the δ-Arietids meteor shower, exploded 15.7 km (9.8 mi) overhead.
The authors of the conference paper making this claim provide no evidence that a meteor was seen by anyone outside the village.
And the authors also provide no evidence that this proposed massive explosion was seen or heard by anyone in any of the nearby villages.
Historical Records of δ-Arietids Superfireballs Over Spain by J.M.Madiedo and J. M. Trigo-Rodríguez
42nd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (2011)
References
External links
- Sistema de Información Multiterritorial de Andalucía
Municipalities in the Province of Huelva
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