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Posted on 04/04/2014 6:34:08 AM PDT by Red Badger
Calling BS on this one. As others have said a meteor would be supersonic, and wouldnt just fall past him. Besides, the odds of this occurring are astronomical (so to speak).
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At some point, usually between 15 to 20 km (9-12 miles or 48,000-63,000 feet) altitude, the meteoroid remnants will decelerate to the point that the ablation process stops, and visible light is no longer generated. This occurs at a speed of about 2-4 km/sec (4500-9000 mph).
From that point onward, the stones will rapidly decelerate further until they are falling at their terminal velocity, which will generally be somewhere between 0.1 and 0.2 km/sec (200 mph to 400 mph). Moving at these rapid speeds, the meteorite(s) will be essentially invisible during this final “dark flight” portion of their fall.
I’m sorry, but you are incorrect. The meteor has just been slowed by atmospheric drag to terminal velocity... somewhere in the 130 - 170 mph range I suspect.
Per my post, it’s at terminal velocity, well in the 130 - 170 mph range.
As to smoking hot, there you are 100% correct. I’d not have wanted to touch it for a few hours.
The sky diver speculated, while still on shute, that it came from his pack. But after he thought about it, it was not practical since it was too big for him not to have noticed an odd bulge in his pack.
Watch the video and interview over at the London Telegraph site. It’s good.
Go watch the video... It’s no hoax.
Check it out on the London Telegraph site.
Some idiot put the picture-in-picture on top of the falling meteor. It’s possible to see it for only a couple of frames.
And I wish people would stop saying “film” and “filming” when film is not being used.
And I wish people would stop referring to video games as 'tapes'.....................
That is pretty neat. :’)
[snip] Are meteorites hot and molten when they hit the ground?
No. Meteorites are usually no more than warm to the touch when they land. Meteorites only melt around their outside when they pass through the atmosphere due to friction with the air and the magma produced cools as a fusion crust which is usually 1mm thick. [/snip]
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/space/meteorites-dust/meteorite-faq/
Thanks!
My favorite howler about this rare event is, “someone threw it from the plane”. Yeah, and what a great arm, considering the skydiver fell nearly straight down and the plane flew on, and is at least a mile above the skydiver. And imagine, someone trying to kill a skydiver by throwing a rock from the plane, rather than sabotaging the chute. Maybe they just thought “where’s the sport in that?”
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thank you for calling bs on that ludicrous story.
“So what cool thing happened to you today?”
“Oh I just about got hit by a meteor while skydiving”.....
Most of these HD cameras are fixed focus. Which means that the image in the frame where the rock goes by can be replicated.
An equivalent 35mm lens and field of view can then be used from a helicopter, with a gps recorder marking the changing data in the image.
The altitude of the camera both original and substitute camera can be determined. Probably between 15 and 20,000 feet.
From the resulting image the probable bearing of the falling rock path can be guestimated to reduce the area of search.
Knowing the speed of the object in the original images from multiple frames , it then becomes a trial and error math problem.
I'm amazed that none of the experts has thought to do that.
thats my point- it does not look like it is falling that fast
and I would have expected to see smoke or something
It could be, of course, I am just speculating
Thats pretty nifty!
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