A Norwegian man captured footage of a meteorite passing extremely close to him during a skydive - Polidicks

[url]http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/10742854/Meteorite-narrowly-misses-Norwegian-skydiver.html[/url] [quote]A Norwegian man narrowly avoided being hit by a meteorite while skydiving and has captured the first ever video footage of a meteorite travelling through the air after its flame has gone out. A geologist confirmed that a meteorid had exploded about 20 kilometres above Mr Helstrup and his fellow skydivers when they made the historic jump in 2012. Ever since then, teams of experts and enthusiasts have been scouring the Norwegian countryside in search of the rock specimen that fell.[/quote] See source for video

Holy shit.

That's neat, but I was expecting a flaming boulder

The video was posted in the videos section 10 hours ago. Imagine if that went through his 'chute, damn. Or heck, if it hit him.

[QUOTE=DMK95921;44447402]That's neat, but I was expecting a flaming boulder[/QUOTE] Given the speed it was traveling at and it's weight, it may as well have been. It would have likely removed a portion of his body with a ton of collateral damage if it had hit him, based on my rough estimations.

that video was slightly disappointing, i wasn't expecting to see a pebble. still, he is lucky that it didn't hit him.

[QUOTE=DMK95921;44447402]That's neat, but I was expecting a flaming boulder[/QUOTE] When most things get really hot, they don't just light up in flames. Only certain carbon compounds do that. For all we know that thing could've been hot enough to light flames of it's own if you let it touch something that does get lit on fire.

The chances of him seeing that are astronomically small..

It looks like it fell out of the chute when it opened.

Makes me wonder if these have taken out planes. Malaysia airliner anyone?

[QUOTE=HybridTheroy;44447412]The video was posted in the videos section 10 hours ago. Imagine if that went through his 'chute, damn. Or heck, if it hit him.[/QUOTE] I imagine he'd be dead in that case.

[QUOTE=Bradyns;44447575]The chances of him seeing that are astronomically small..[/QUOTE] There wasn't that much space between them.

They just recovered the meteorite. According to a geologist it was made of pure Coincidence.

[QUOTE=ForgottenKane;44447525]When most things get really hot, they don't just light up in flames. Only certain carbon compounds do that. For all we know that thing could've been hot enough to light flames of it's own if you let it touch something that does get lit on fire.[/QUOTE] You do realise when something is hurting through a gas incredibly fast the light and heat that comes off of it ISN'T a result of the object catching fire, right? That light and heat is given off from the air in front of the object being compressed immensely.

[QUOTE=sltungle;44450975]You do realise when something is hurting through a gas incredibly fast the light and heat that comes off of it ISN'T a result of the object catching fire, right? That light and heat is given off from the air in front of the object being compressed immensely.[/QUOTE] Yup, the effects you see in re-entry are caused when the air molecules in front of the object are being compressed to the point where they start to heat up. And even then that isn't fire either, it's more like a superheated plasma.

[QUOTE=sltungle;44450975]You do realise when something is hurting through a gas incredibly fast the light and heat that comes off of it ISN'T a result of the object catching fire, right? That light and heat is given off from the air in front of the object being compressed immensely.[/QUOTE] That's badass. "I'm falling so fast I set the air on fire. :wink:"

Looks fake as fuck.

Maybe there was a rock in his backpack that fell out when he opened the parachute.

[QUOTE=sltungle;44450975]You do realise when something is hurting through a gas incredibly fast the light and heat that comes off of it ISN'T a result of the object catching fire, right? That light and heat is given off from the air in front of the object being compressed immensely.[/QUOTE] That was my point.

[QUOTE=AntonioR;44451476]Maybe there was a rock in his backpack that fell out when he opened the parachute.[/QUOTE] because any sky diver would ever let a rock into his bag when packing his chute :downs:

Don't know why some people are expecting a flaming boulder. At the altitude the skydiver (or any skydiver) is at, a meteoroid will already have traveled through way more than enough atmosphere to slow it down to terminal velocity. If you want to skydive from a high enough altitude to even have a chance of seeing a meteoroid causing a fireball fly past, you'd have Felix Baumgartner beat pretty good.

Would be awesome if someone could find it, and find out what it's made of.

[QUOTE=Xyrec;44452216]Would be awesome if someone could find it, and find out what it's made of.[/QUOTE] Correct me if I'm wrong but shouldn't it disintegrate before it touches the ground or does that just happen when it enters the earth's atmosphere?

[QUOTE=DMK95921;44447402]That's neat, but I was expecting a flaming boulder[/QUOTE] I thought the sun was the meteorite for a few seconds. :v:

[QUOTE=ss1234;44452252]Correct me if I'm wrong but shouldn't it disintegrate before it touches the ground or does that just happen when it enters the earth's atmosphere?[/QUOTE] That happens while it is in the upper atmosphere, and even if it did disintegrate it's not like the pieces would magically vanish. At the point it is in the video it is just a rock falling towards the ground at terminal velocity, and thus doesn't behave any different from a rock falling towards the ground at terminal velocity.

[QUOTE=Neddy;44451380]Looks fake as fuck.[/QUOTE] You're right, 4 frames of editing. Why would he bother faking it though.

Obviously a failed assassination attempt by an assailant on board the plane.

It pretty much turned out to be just a rock. [url]http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2014/04/08/skydiving_meteorite_it_was_a_rock.html[/url]

[QUOTE=Del91;44504727]It pretty much turned out to be just a rock. [url]http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2014/04/08/skydiving_meteorite_it_was_a_rock.html[/url][/QUOTE] I don't understand why people jumped to the conclusion it was an asteroid slow news day probably

[QUOTE=krail9;44505046]I don't understand why people jumped to the conclusion it was an asteroid slow news day probably[/QUOTE] Because it's a rock falling from the sky? You don't see many of those that aren't meteorites.