Skydiver’s Helmet Cam Captures a Falling Meteor Almost Hitting Him

PETAPIXEL ^ | april 03,2014 | Michael Zhang

[SWAMPSNIPER]

For the first time ever, a meteor has been captured on camera falling through the sky after it has finished burning. And that’s not all: the baseball-sized space rock nearly slammed into the man behind the camera.

[autumnraine]

What?!? You expect a Freeper to READ THE ARTICLE before posting?

[shove_it]

Almost cratered.

[TheThirdRuffian]

You’re an idiot.

http://www.imo.net/fireball/meteorites

[TheThirdRuffian]

I know. People seem to enjoy wallowing in stupidity.

[dangus]

I hope he kept his mouth quiet until he retrieved it. Those suckers are worth millions.

[eartrumpet]

If this rock and cracked him on the noggin and knocked him cold, then he plowed into the ground with the usual tissue damage, what are the chances the coroner would have reached the meteorite scenario for cause of death?

[Hegewisch Dupa]

absolutely

[henkster]

She’s extremely not guilty. I liked how they were laughing about “if you’d jumped a fraction of a second later you’d have been killed.”

Ha ha ha ha.

Off to Valhalla.

Ha ha ha.

Must also be a Scandy thing.

[Inyo-Mono]

Bookmarking your bookmark.

[shove_it]

One more reason not to go skydiving.

[Beowulf9]

Fabulous photos of it. Amazing to think rocks just fall on us all the time.

[Justa]

If you view the video you will see the airplane as a small white blip miles in the distance before the rock passes. In order for the rock to be proximate to him the airplane would have to have been practically hovering above him.

Or do you think someone can throw a rock that close from several miles away?

[steve86]

Piece of something that came off his chute when it opened. It would have had to be dense like a rock to fall like that.

[pallis]

Incredible!

[kaehurowing]

Frozen turd from an airline lavatory.

[dr_lew]

Well I guess it's here somewhere, about 10 miles SSE of Hedmark, Norway:

[SunkenCiv]

Impossible! All rocks burn up in the atmosphere / rocks are picked up by the winds from elsewhere on the Earth ping. Thanks colorado tanker.

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[SunkenCiv]

Thanks, it was a valiant effort. :’)

[SunkenCiv]

The helmet probably would have had a mark on it, but the odds against it are so low that the suggested explanation wouldn’t have been believed — even with that cam footage, which might have shown the rock hurtling on.

[SunkenCiv]

:’)