According to geologist Hans Amundsen—of the Natural History Museum in Oslo—you’re looking at the first ever film of a meteorite falling through its dark flight stage. The lucky guy who filmed it was skydiver Anders Helstrup, who survived the encounter unscathed.
The chances of this happening, according to the scientist, are “much less likely than winning the lottery three times in a row.” Here’s the original video. You can see the meteorite zooming down at the 0:22 mark.
Bullcrap. Nobody sees that is a stone that fell out of his chute? It happened right after opening!
It can’t be coming that fast if it came from his parachute…
How fast? When does a 3cm stone reach its terminal velocity? What was the forward speed of the skydiver? What was the distance the stone traveled in these 7 frames (1/4th of a second)?
As long as all of this is unsure, it’s safest to assume that the stone that emerged from under the parachute is from our earth.
Let’s not mention the possibility that someone could have played with the “add-your-own-meteorite” plugin in aftereffects. Don’t get me wrong, I love this site, but a title like ‘is this a meteorite?’ Would fit better and be a more approach.
I’d love to see replies from people approximating speed and size.
That’s true, there are a lot of uncertainties…