Where did the green meteorite seen over Spain and Portugal land?
With thoughts of a scene from an early Superman film, video footage on Saturday night captured the imagination of sky gazers everywhere.
Thanks to everyone having a portable camera on hand these days, a number of stunning moments of footage were captured as what looked like a greeny-blue fireball thundered towards Earth. Following the images being shared on social media, we have since had it confirmed by the Portuguese Civil Defense agency that it was caused by a meteorite, which landed in the Portuguese town of Pinheiro.
Where is Pinheiro?
The town of Pinheiro sits in the district of Porto, around a 40 minute drive from the beautiful Portuguese city towards the north of the country.
Footage of the meteorite
As well as marvelling at the spectacle, social media users were quick to take a more amusing slant on the glowing ball approaching land. One such take was comparing it to the moment a baby Superman arrived in the original movie after escaping Krypton, being adopted by a local farming couple. There was also a post on X suggesting that someone was immediately selling a piece of the meteorite on Facebook, for half a million dollars.